[Galene] Galene HTTP API error and various feedback

[Galene] Galene HTTP API error and various feedback

[Timothée Jaussoin]

Hi,

Thanks for the awesome work, I'm currently trying to wrap Galene into my 
project and I have an HTTP API error and a few feedback to provide as well:

curl -v -X PUT -u "admin:123" -H "Accept: */*" -H "If-None-Match:*" -H 
"Content-Type:application/json" 
http://localhost:8444/galene-api/v0/.groups/city-watch-4

Is returning:

2026/07/09 17:25:25 HTTP server error: EOF

Where

./galenectl create-group -group city-watch4

Works properly, with galenetctl.json config file being

{
    "server": "http://localhost:8444",
    "admin-username": "admin",
    "admin-password": "123"
}

Feedback:

1. Its not written in the documentation that the API authentication is 
actually using Basic Auth, its a small thing but I had to dive in into 
galenectl code to understand that

2. I'd really like to be able to directly pass the admin-username and 
admin-password or directly an admin-api-key when launching ./galene, 
this will allow projects that wraps Galene like mine to not have to deal 
with galenectl and its custom file and generate a random 
username/password or api-key each time galene is launched.

3. For projects that wrap Galene it would also be interesting if the API 
calls and open Websockets requests could be restricted to the local 
machine only (to prevent so security issues if the API is unfortunatelly 
exposed publicly).

4. I'm not there yet but it seems that each "user" have to create a 
dedicated Websocket (see 
https://galene.org/galene-protocol.html#connecting) when wrapping Galene 
server side. This means that the wrapper will have to maintain dozens of 
Websockets. Would it be possible to provide a "admin" Websocket where 
all the messages are sent through it (with a specific user id to 
differenciate them) ?

Thanks again for this really nice project :)

Regards,

edhelas