Hi all, Unfortunately, despite a huge amount of effort on my application and lots of encouragement from the community (thank you), I didn't get accepted for the Google Summer of Code this year. The odds were against me. If anyone is interested I can move the content of my wiki page (http://ideas.hippygeek.co.uk/wiki/DrupalAdminClient) to somewhere useful on the Drupal site if there's anywhere useful for it to go. That's probably only relevent if there isn't another student taking up this project though because they probably have their own take on it :) Hopefully I can still find time to do some work on Drupal this summer, I've got an idea for an admin module which can register domain names and create drupal sites automatically from a single install. But unfortunately my main priority will be earning some cash. I just have a suggestion about the remote admin API for the XUL client. It seems to me that a content management system lends itself very well to a RESTful API. Each node could be a resource which you can GET, PUT or POST to. For a crude example, for the Multi-site user approval use case, there could be a * [HTTP GET] http://example.com/user/?enabled=0 to get a list of disabled users and a * [HTTP PUT] http://example.com/user/2 to update the enabled status of user 2 for example. To disable a module for security reasons, you could do a PUT to update its enabled status. *[HTTP PUT] http://example.com/admin/module/1 To view the logs on a website you could GET like this: * [HTTP GET] http://example.com/admin/logs You get the idea. The only problem with this approach is that I suspect it could be quite difficult because it would require modifications to lots of modules, correct me if I'm wrong. For this reason it may be easier to develop a procedural based API like XML_RPC, or send a function with a simple POST like Daniel suggested: $_POST['json'] = '{"function":"login","parameters":{"name":"foo","password":"bar"}}'; Cheers -- Ben "tola" Francis http://hippygeek.co.uk