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[Serge Aumont <address@concealed>]

Chris Hastie wrote:
> The change in Sympa from using a 'sympauser' cookie to sessions has made
> it more difficult to arrange for authentication to be handled by
> external applications. Should it help any one else affected by this, the
> attached is a hack I put together to enable an existing PHP application
> to set Sympa's session cookie. Obviously all the authentication logic is
> handled by the PHP app. Once that is satisfied that the user should be
> authenticated to sympa it can use this class to make the appropriate
> updates to sympa's session_table, then set a cookie:
>
> include ('SympaSession.php');
> $ss = new SympaSession($email);
> $sympa_session_id = $ss->getid();
> setcookie("sympa_session", $sympa_session_id, 0, '/',
> $sympa_session_domain, FALSE);
>
> It suits my purposes, but is not hugely flexible. See it as an example
> to be modified, not a fully tested and guaranteed working class.
>   
Great ! That's a good contrib I have added in the contrib section : 
http://www.sympa.org/contribs/ .

We will add  soap feature to allow :

 * Sympa session creation from other application (the service will 
return the cookie to be sent to the remote client)
 * Use of existing Sympa session from other application (input a 
sympasession cookie, output the user email if any)
 * close an existing Sympa session (logout) from a remote application 
(input an a sympasession cookie, erase user email in session table)

Serge