[myexperiment-hackers] RESTful download of resources (RE: MYEXP-2083)

[Finn Bacall]

http://dev.mygrid.org.uk/issues/browse/MYEXP-2083

My temporary solution to this:
* I added a filter to the application controller that calls a method 
which checks incoming requests for HTTP basic auth credentials (if the 
user is not logged in) and authenticates the user if they're present.
* In the workflow controller, I added some code to the authorization 
section that returns a 401 with the appropriate headers if the client is 
accepting XML (rather than redirecting to an HTML page as it does now).

Can anyone see any glaring issues with this?

-Finn

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Finn Bacall
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School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
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