Basic Drupal to Drupal User Authentication?

As a test, I tried node.get:

function test_init() {
	$node = xmlrpc('http://localhost/services/xmlrpc', 'node.get', 2, 'nid,title');
	var_dump($node);exit;
}

The response was null.

Okay, got it. Forgot to wrap fields with array().

If anyone is curious as to how to expand on Services with custom methods I wrote a quick blog post of what I've been working on for a project.

http://www.delawarewebdesigner.com/tech-stuff/sync-drupal-content-using-...

I know the authentication method there is no good- can anyone point me to a good example/tutorial of basic authentication for Services? I only need 1 account/role to perform the requests.

Yeah, Deploy worked for exporting a content type. When I tried to do it for a node, it gave me 'Success'- but nothing happened on the receiving end. No watchdog log or apache log either. I couldn't figure it out. Thanks for the link.

I see. Is this for Anonymous users only? I was watching a deployment screencast and they were using a special user/role to do this instead of Anonymous.

If you created the same user on two sites, how could you tell that the user requesting a service is the same user on the other website? Thats where I was scratching my head and thought well if there is no return response, or access denied, user name mismatch, then it couldbe good enough... but I want to be sure so we don't open a security hole.

So ok, first I would do system.connect locally, user.login with my local user, get that session and send that to the remote server with user.login?

Here is what I tried:

$user = 'services';
	$password = 'services';
	$xmlrpc_url = 'http://www.remotesite.com/services/xmlrpc';
	$anon_session = xmlrpc($xmlrpc_url, 'system.connect');
	
	$authenticated_session = xmlrpc($xmlrpc_url, 'user.login', $anon_session['sessid'], $user, $password);
	$xmlrpc_result = xmlrpc($xmlrpc_url, 'user.get', $authenticated_session['sessid'], 0);

	if ($xmlrpc_result === FALSE) {
  print '<pre>' . print_r(xmlrpc_error(), TRUE) . '<pre>';
}

The user exists on the local and remote site.
else {
  print '<pre>' . print_r($xmlrpc_result, TRUE) . '<pre>';
}
exit;

I get:

stdClass Object
(
    [is_error] => 1
    [code] => 1
    [message] => There is no user with such ID.
)

Another site on the same server. UID 0 does exist.

Looks like user.login and user.get only accept username/password and uid as fields, how does it know how to handle the session ID if you pass that in?

Gotcha. Needed to enable sessid under Settings- I thought I had done that. Now I don't get 'There is no user with such ID.'- I can use user.get on any user.

This way, I can be sure I am requesting based on authenticated session id right? I see that sessid is now required for all methods.