I recently started implementing my own server for version 2 of the public gpodder API. I just started testing it against the mygpoclient python library and while doing so I noticed that mygpoclient doesn't seem to use the Authentication API at all.

What mygpoclient does instead is HTTP basic auth for every request. gpodder.net also seems to support this, but after reading the version 2 API documentation I was personally under the impression that an explicit POST request to /api/2/auth/(username)/login.json would be required to authenticate the user. Maybe I just missed the paragraph which states that this isn't required (if so: please point me to it) but otherwise it would probably be nice to clarify this in the authentication API documentation.

I previously tested my server implementation against AntennaPod and it sends a request to login.json before performing any other requests which is what I expected.

Hope you don't mind me asking this here, if such issues are better discussed on the ML let me know.