[db-wg] call for application authorisation ideas

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:19:34PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:24:20PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 02:40:43PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
> > > the RIPE DB:
> > > 
> > >     a) send GPG signed emails (and wait for the dumb greylisting to clear)
> > >     b) call the
> > >       http://rest.db.ripe.net/{source}/{objecttype}/{key}?password=XXX
> > >       restful API
> > 
> > c) syncupdates - works with PGP-signed objects
> 
> Mmmm interesting, you just POST against
> https://apps.db.ripe.net/syncupdates/simple-rpsl.html?

The script I downloaded from RIPE about a decade ago seems to post
to 
   http://syncupdates.db.ripe.net/

but otherwise, yes.

> How do you properly catch errors and such?

It spits out about the same return message you get from the e-mail
robot - with SUMMARY OF UPDATE and everything.  So yes, a bit of parsing
is needed, but for our fairly basic use cases (create new person: objects, 
add/update and delete inetnum:) this is easy enough.

Gert Doering
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