[plug] Westnet Usage Monitor for Linux

[Trevor Phillips]

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 12:32:45 +0800, Craig Ringer
<craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 11:43, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Hence there doesn't appear to be any
> > Linux capable version at this stage...
> 
> Surely, if anything has ever been begging for an XML-RPC / SOAP
> interface (over SSL, of course), this is it. There would be no user
> privacy issue - you'd still have to provide authentication details - but
> a basic client could be implemented by any half-decent programmer with
> 20 minutes to spare.

Easy, yes. Allowable & supported by Westnet - not currently.

By the sounds of it, they want proof of your application ID, so they
can monitor app usage. An OS solution (in a non-compiled language)
would allow that key to be copied/changed, thus allowing forgery of
application ID.

I can't see the big deal myself. What would the advantage be to
forging another app's ID?

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Trevor Phillips  - http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/
Web Technical Administrator  -  IT Services, Murdoch University
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