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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.

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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.

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