Subject: [alpine-devel] using acf as a rest API

From: Jaime Melis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 01:36:33 +0200

Hi guys,

I'm an OpenNebula developer and I had a chat today with Roger and he told me
about this project. As far as I've seen, it looks like a perfect match for
many
things we want to do in our project.

One of these thing is to provide our users with a virtual router that
autoconfigures itself matching the OpenNebula configuration and does things
like: dns server, dhcp server, etc...

So, my question here is, I'd like to call some acf funcionalities from
inside a
pogram (namely reconfigure dnsmasq and restart the service), so far I've
seen
the only way to do this programmatically is to log-in with curl for
instance,
get the cookie, and pass it along to the following requests.

Is there any alternative? should I do this in a different way? would you
consider applying a patch developed by me that enables http basic
authentication
in /etc/acf/acf.conf so I can simply do the equivalent of curl -X POST -u
<username>:<pass> https://... without the need of handling cookies?

cheers,
Jaime

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Jaime Melis
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
www.OpenNebula.org | [email-masked]

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From: William Pitcock <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:19:34 -0500

Hello,

> <username>:<pass> https://... without the need of handling cookies?

I believe this is one of the problems that ACF2 looks to solve.  But I
don't personally work on ACF/ACF2, so I can't tell you for certain.

Other than that, I think a patch would be fine as a short-term
solution.  We (myself and my employer) are certainly interested in
using ACF for instance orchestration, too, in our internal builds of
Alpine.

William

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From: Ted Trask <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:43:41 -0700 (PDT)

If you are trying to remotely access ACF, yes, you must manage the cookie right now. (There are command-line or programmable options if you are on the device) If you would like to submit a patch to allow http basic authentication, I would be okay with applying it. Thanks for your interest in ACF. If you need assistance in creating the patch, please let me know.

Ted

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 From: Jaime Melis <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked] 
Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 7:36 PM
Subject: [alpine-devel] using acf as a rest API

Hi guys,

I'm an OpenNebula developer and I had a chat today with Roger and he told me
about this project. As far as I've seen, it looks like a perfect match for many
things we want to do in our project.

So, my question here is, I'd like to call some acf funcionalities from inside a
pogram (namely reconfigure dnsmasq and restart the service), so far I've seen
the only way to do this programmatically is to log-in with curl for instance,
get the cookie, and pass it along to the following requests.

Is there any alternative? should I do this in a different way? would you
consider applying a patch developed by me that enables http basic authentication
in /etc/acf/acf.conf so I can simply do the equivalent of curl -X POST -u
<username>:<pass> https://... without the need of handling cookies?

cheers,
Jaime