[Piwik-hackers] Separate controller for API calls?

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++to a different controller for API

Daniel Blanco wrote:
> Hi!
> I think it would be nice if the API calls were made against a different
> controller than index.php, in the same way the tracking js sends the
> tracking info to piwik.php.
> For example, having a separate file like api.php, will allow us to
> restrict the backend access to a certain IP address, but still permit
> the API calls to be made from any IP.
>
> What I've done to solve this is to create  a "proxy" that recieves the
> API calls and forwards them to the index.php which is locked by the
> .htacces and only accepts
> requests from localhost, while that "proxy" accepts connections from
> everywhere.
>
> What do you think? Is a good or bad idea?
>
> Thanks for this great tool that is helping us a lot with stats!!
>
> Dani
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