Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 7:54 PM.

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howtoSuite.validateUser

on validateUser (what) {
	<<Changes
		<<8/6/08; 1:13:02 PM by DW
			<<Check with identi.ca, if the username/password are cool, return true, otherwise all hell breaks loose. :-)
	identica.init ();
	local (username = user.identica.prefs.username);
	local (password = user.identica.prefs.password);
	if (username != "") and (password != "") {
		if identica.authenticate (username, password) {
			return (true)}};
	local (prompt = "Can't " + what + " because the Identi.ca username/password were rejected by the server.");
	if dialog.twoway (prompt, "Edit", "Cancel") {
		opmlEditor.prefs.openIdenticaPage ()};
	return (false)}
<<bundle //test code
	<<validateUser ("stink up your butt")

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.