WordPress.com Forums » Topic: XMLRPC generic login for retreiving public info http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/xmlrpc-generic-login-for-retreiving-public-info WordPress.com Forums » Topic: XMLRPC generic login for retreiving public info en Sat, 25 May 2013 00:16:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "XMLRPC generic login for retreiving public info" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/xmlrpc-generic-login-for-retreiving-public-info#post-640274 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:31:37 +0000 timethief 640274@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes please do ask Staff.

]]> limefrogyank on "XMLRPC generic login for retreiving public info" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/xmlrpc-generic-login-for-retreiving-public-info#post-640272 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:28:03 +0000 limefrogyank 640272@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well, being a beginner, I forgot about HTTPS and SSL so that takes care of encrypting the login info. However, I still need to find out if I'm allowed to create a dummy account to hardcore into my app for retrieving info via XML-RPC. Not sure if it's against their terms of service or not. I'll need to ask about that part.

]]> timethief on "XMLRPC generic login for retreiving public info" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/xmlrpc-generic-login-for-retreiving-public-info#post-640062 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:56:40 +0000 timethief 640062@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Have you resolved this issue? If not then you will have to contact Staff. Here’s the link http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ After you use the searchbox at the bottom of the page there will be a section that says “Have you found the answer to your question?” You can choose either “Yes I found the answer to my question.” or “No I didn’t find the answer to my question and I would like to contact support for help.” The no option will reveal the contact form.

]]> limefrogyank on "XMLRPC generic login for retreiving public info" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/xmlrpc-generic-login-for-retreiving-public-info#post-635903 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:10:00 +0000 limefrogyank 635903@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm making a client app that will display a wordpress blog (outside of the browser) and show comments, TOC, etc. I would like to be able to use XML-RPC to get all the information rather than scrape it from the HTML. From what I can tell, the XML-RPC interface requires a wordpress login even to retrieve information (nevermind, create posts).

Is there a public username/password that can be used to retreive information and be locked out of making any changes?

The alternative I was thinking of seems risky and I doubt would be a good idea... but if I created a 2nd username and hardcoded it into my client, I could programmatically only allow retreiving data. However, someone using wireshark could easily see the login and password and could manually login to cause misery. Sooo... scratch that.

I intend to make the user login with their own information if they wanted to post comments, but I would like to avoid forcing them to sign up for wordpress just to read the blog through my app.

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