Mail List, SSL

I’m this close to having PGXN Manager ready for a limited beta. I’ve got it running on Kineticode’s server, and have been tweaking things here and there, fixing some bugs and filling in a few missing bits. In the next couple of days I’ll get some more kinks worked out and then start inviting folks in. If you’re interested – especially if you have an extension you’d like to release, leave a comment here to let me know.

Better yet, sign up for our new mail list. I’ve set this up so that PGXN users can have a place to meet and discuss things (naturally). I expect discussion will be about how to create proper distribution archives (hint: it’s all about the META.json file); issues with PGXN Manager or the network itself, and directions for ongoing development.

Oh, one thing I wanted to run by you here: I currently have two sections in PGXN Manager: public and users only. Right now the only difference is that all the users-only stuff is under the /auth/ URI, which is itself limited by a basic auth challenge. I find this setup a bit hinky, though, because the link to /about, for example, appears in the nav menu for both sections, and if you’re logged in and click it, it will look like you’re logged out.

So I was thinking perhaps that I’d change it so that the difference is that user-only is on port 443 (SSL) and public on port 80. That way I could have links to about on both and one wouldn’t appear to be logged out by clicking it from the SSL site. Because, you know, they’re effectively two different sites.

Thoughts? Is using the SSL divide perhaps the most natural way to separate user-only access from public access?

More soon.