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[Omer Akram <om26er@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

if you are the owner of the web service, I would suggest to change the
authentication to token-based. If its a third-party service, then you might
probably want to check if the service supports a more secure way to
authenticate/login. If the web service really only supports basic
authentication and you don't want to deal with Online accounts, then I
guess you could write username/password so a sqlite database. I know its
ugly but a little bit less uglier than just writing to a plain text file.

Here are some simple JS helpers[1] that I wrote for my purpose but you can
easily adapt that for your usecase.

[1]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~om26er/ubuntu-soundcloud-app/trunk/view/head:/UbuntuSoundcloudApp/DbHelpers.js#L10

Thanks!

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Rutger Hendriks <rutgerhendriks@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I'm creating a QML app with the Ubuntu SDK IDE. This app uses
> XMLHttpRequests to authenticate to an online service and then can get it's
> data from there.
> This all works fine, but I need to always type in the username and
> password. Now what I want is to store this information so that it can be
> read on application start.
> How would I go about doing this?
> I've found https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OnlineAccounts but that clearly states:
> -----------------------------
> The purpose of Online Accounts in Ubuntu is to simplify the overall
> experience, by reducing your need to enter sign-in details for an online
> service in multiple apps.
>
> This time saving comes at a cost: the mental complexity of dealing with a
> separate thing, “Online Accounts”. Therefore, Online Accounts should be
> involved only where it is reasonably likely to save time. So it should not
> be used to handle special-purpose accounts that are only ever used for one
> app; that would make the overall experience more complex for no gain.
> -----------------------------
>
> Well, as you might have guessed, my app will be the only one to use the
> account. Now what is the preferred way to store my account settings? I
> guess it needs to be somewhat secure... Wouldn't want anyone to read it...
> but then again, that might be step 2..
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Rutger Hendriks
>
>
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