[Typo3-dev] BE Login through URL part 2

[Leendert Brouwer [Netcreators]]

>  > I'm not sure if that would be needed. Why not enable the XML
> > layer to do the authentication as well?
>
> Well, the CLI is especially intended for non-interactive tasks started
> via cron or similar services. Eg what's currently missing is a cron job
> for session expiry. Something like that won't even need any real user
> rights. I guess that's true for backup jobs as well.
>
> For these kind of tasks I don't need no exposed API (via XML or
> somethign else), just an internal API that's not tied to the Web
interface.

But if you do have that XML API, it would be trivial to write a CLI that
uses it as well :) In fact it would be trivial to write any Typo3 "client"
once that part would be done.

>
> And I use CLI a lot in my daily work. Web interfaces are nice but it
> can't hurt to have one ready.

Fully agreed.