[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23446: Expose 'login_url' and 'admin_url' via XML-RPC

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#23446: Expose 'login_url' and 'admin_url' via XML-RPC
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 Reporter:  daniloercoli      |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  XML-RPC           |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch mobile  |
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Comment (by daniloercoli):

 Replying to [comment:6 redsweater]:

 > It does seem like adding the login and admin page URLs to that would be
 reasonable. I still think given the dance you have to do to screen-scrape
 the login page, it would be nice to just add a wp.login() method to get
 the cookie, but this patch is obviously less work and probably a less
 debatable change.

 For the sake of precision it's just a POST to the login form with the URL
 of the target page set as "redirect_to" parameter.
 We are using this technique in 2 case:
 - When we need to preview a draft|private|pending post. The value of the
 redirect_to parameter is set with the permaLink of the post/page. - When
 we need to access the Dashboard of the site. You can change the location
 of /wp-admin/ and sometimes for security reason users did that.

 If you are curious see:
 http://ios.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/WordPress/Classes/PostPreviewViewController.m#L205

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