Allowing users to login to view or use additional resources will be a very common operation with all the rich functionality that GeoExt exposes. This work item seeks to establish some default components and best practices for people building applications that require some sort of login.
It should be a very flexible component, as there are lots of ways to have users login. It should support a number of backends - http basic and digest, open id, geoxaml etc. And should provide an easy programming model to plug-in to other authentication mechanisms.
A default GUI component will also be provided, to allow people to easily add authentication. But since there are many different workflows that might want to handle it differently, the GUI component should be built for flexibility.
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