Python REST framework?

[A.M. Kuchling]

On 2 Sep 2003 14:52:05 -0700, 
	Will Stuyvesant <hwlgw at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm interested.  But I have been looking at the discussion on the rest
> mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/ and it
> seems they haven't found a solution for the user:password thing yet.
> Using SSL is a must, but then what?  Create some unguessable URI? 

I'm not on the rest-discuss list and therefore don't know what this is
referring to?  What's wrong with returning an HTTP 401 Unauthorized error to
make the user provide a username and password?

--amk