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I'd like to make a suggestion for the server.

I've used the webservices API to create new projects and generate documents. What would be really nice however is, instead of having to use webservices is to simply have the enterprise server parse a url and return a document.

The URL should specify the document, return type, required arguments and so forth.

This feature would be nice so that I could generate links and simply post them on either a website or email to a client.

I've been playing around with yuml and they do a great job of basically treating urls as first class commands. take a look at yuml.me and how they render documents from urls. Different domain obviously but the right direction i think.

My use case was to call the url from our sugarcrm system which already has a user authentication system. Security is an interesting concern and one I don't really have an answer for. I suppose there could introduce a concept of "public" verses "private" documents where "public" documents would be eligible for public generation. Defaulting to private would ensure that you had to explicitly specify if a document was publicly accessible.

Other than that, you could put ip filtering on the request I suppose and restrict access that way.

Or you could have a document based or system based password. I imagine you could do a document based password which the user would then have to provide prior to obtaining the document.

I like the idea of the having three options: private (no URL generation), authenticated (either IP based or password based) and public (no authentication required). In my case, the server was not publicly accessible outside our network so I wasn't worried about privacy but it is a real concern for a number of orgs.