Answer to Joey, and justify my text (in the source)

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 I'd like to have some pages of my wiki to be only viewable by some users.
 
-I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have 2 authentication mecanisms, so I'd prefer to use openID for that too.
+I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have 
+2 authentication mecanisms, so I'd prefer to use openID for that too.
 
-* I'm thinking of adding a "show" parameter to the cgi script, thanks to a plugin similar to goto.
-* When called, it would check the credential using the session stuff (that I don't understand yet). If not enough, it would serve a 403 error of course.
-* If enough, it would read the file locally on the server side and return this as a content.
+* I'm thinking of adding a "show" parameter to the cgi script, thanks 
+  to a plugin similar to goto.
+* When called, it would check the credential using the session stuff 
+  (that I don't understand yet). 
+* If not enough, it would serve a 403 error of course.
+* If enough, it would read the file locally on the server side and 
+  return this as a content.
 
-Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki, and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and much more maintainable htaccess file.
+Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki,
+and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and 
+much more maintainable htaccess file.
 
 -- [[users/emptty]]
 
 > While I'm sure a plugin could do this, it adds so much scalability cost
 > and is so counter to ikiwiki's design.. Have you considered using the
 > [[plugins/httpauth]] plugin to unify around htaccess auth? --[[Joey]] 
+
+>> I'm not speaking of rendering the pages on demand, but to serve them on demand.
+>> They would still be compiled the regular way;
+>> I'll have another look at [[plugins/httpauth]] but I really like the openID whole idea.
+>> --[[emptty]]