Gmane save the day again

I had a problem where I wanted to perform authorization without authentication. After alot of scratching of my head, Gmane came to the rescue:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.catalyst.general/17180

I really like Gmane, there is a handy search plugin for it as well:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/8737