Authenticating to WordPress from external application

  • I’m trying to write an external application that will authenticate against my wordpress installation (that doesn’t run on WP’s web server and isn’t written with Php). There are generally a few ways to do this but I’m not sure what WordPress supports so:

    1. I can do a direct database authentication but I’m not sure what hashing algorithm WP 3.0.4 uses. Its definitely not the normal MD5 or SHA.

    2. I can use web services but I don’t think the standard WP install supports those

    3. I can use any other generic web techniques (ie REST calls, JSON API, etc) but again it doesn’t seem like WP has those.

    What’s the best way to go about doing this ?

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