WhatTheDeploy Open Beta

beta.whatthedeploy.com

9 points·josephwegner··7 comments

It seems interesting. I assume at some point you plan to add the ability to login and so forth? Otherwise, many sites aren't going to be able to render 90% of what they care about (especially SaaS where 90% of the "important stuff" is behind a login wall).

Hi. I'm the creator of WhatTheDeploy.

That's certainly on the possible roadmap. Right now, I'm trying to determine the best way of accomplishing that without requiring someone to poke a giant security hole in their application.

It can be accomplished right now if you're OK with a security hole by creating a separate dummy account and enabling Basic Auth through that single account.

Very much open to better suggestions, however.

Might want to close this up a bit, can just change the number at the end and grab emails for everyone that signed up:

http://beta.whatthedeploy.com/users/1

User Name: Chris Vannoy Email: chris@chrisvannoy.com

Thanks. Should be all patched up now. A lot of the user management stuff is a work in progress. After all, didn't have many users before today.

Thanks so much for pointing it out!

I'm not sure if I really have a better suggestion but possibly letting people define a login form post & the ability to store a session ID might work better.

For example, have a form like this: http://www.hurl.it/

Have the Destination labeled as the login form, then store the resulting cookie.

I'm not sure if you are setup in a way that is practical, tho.

This could be cool. But, other than the pretty gnarly security hole pointed out by spykiller... the site is purely errors for me.

Yeah. Today was kinda unexpected and the queue is a bit backed up.

Working on it.

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