diff --git a/bootstrap.php b/bootstrap.php
index 1e026060..0168e834 100644
--- a/bootstrap.php
+++ b/bootstrap.php
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ declare(strict_types=1);
 namespace JKingWeb\NewsSync;
 
 const BASE = __DIR__.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
+const NS_BASE = __NAMESPACE__."\\";
 
 spl_autoload_register(function ($class) {
 	if($class=="SimplePie") return;
diff --git a/locale/en.php b/locale/en.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7b99d963
--- /dev/null
+++ b/locale/en.php
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?php
+$string[] = [
+	"Exception.JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.defaultFileMissing"		=> "Default language file \"{0}\" missing",
+	"Exception.JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.fileMissing"			=> "Language file \"{0}\" is not available",
+	"Exception.JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.fileUnreadable"			=> "Insufficient permissions to read language file \"{0}\"",
+	"Exception.JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.fileCorrupt"			=> "Language file \"{0}\" is corrupt or does not conform to expected format",
+	"Exception.JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.stringMissing" 			=> "Message string \"{msgID}\" missing from all loaded language files ({fileList})",
+];
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diff --git a/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Auth/AuthInterface.php b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Auth/AuthInterface.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..59928c87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Auth/AuthInterface.php
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+namespace JKingWeb\NewsSync\Auth;
+
+Interface AuthInterface {
+	public function __construct($conf, $db);
+	public function auth(): bool;
+	public function authHTTP(): bool;
+	public function isAdmin(): bool;
+}
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diff --git a/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Auth/DriverInternal.php b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Auth/DriverInternal.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e1760ab0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Auth/DriverInternal.php
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+namespace JKingWeb\NewsSync\Auth;
+use JKingWeb\NewsSync;
+
+class Internal implements AuthInterface {
+	protected $conf;
+	protected $db;
+
+	public function __construct($conf, $db) {
+
+	}
+
+	public function auth(): bool {
+
+	}
+
+	public function authHTTP(): bool {
+
+	}
+
+	public function isAdmin(): bool {
+
+	}
+}
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diff --git a/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Conf.php b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Conf.php
index 8ad25fdc..95a044a3 100644
--- a/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Conf.php
+++ b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Conf.php
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ declare(strict_types=1);
 namespace JKingWeb\NewsSync;
 
 class Conf {
-	public $dbType 				= "SQLite3";
+	public $lang 				= "en";
+	
+	public $dbClass				= NS_BASE."Db\\DriverSQLite3";
 	public $dbSQLite3PDO 		= false;
 	public $dbSQLite3File 		= BASE."newssync.db";
 	public $dbPostgreSQLPDO 	= false;
@@ -20,29 +22,41 @@ class Conf {
 	public $dbMySQLPort 		= 3306;
 	public $dbMySQLDb 			= "newssync";
 
+	public $authClass 			= NS_BASE."Auth\\DriverInternal";
+	public $authPreferHTTP 		= false;
+	public $authProvision 		= false;
+
 	public $simplepieCache 		= BASE.".cache";
 
 
-	function __construct(string $import_file = "") {
-		if($import_file != "") $this->import($import_file);
+	public function __construct(string $import_file = "") {
+		if($import_file != "") $this->import_file($import_file);
 	}
 
-	function import(string $file): bool {
+	public function importFile(string $file): self {
+		if(!file_exists($file)) throw new Conf\Exception("fileMissing");
+		if(!is_readable($file)) throw new Conf\Exception("fileUnreadable");
 		$json = @file_get_contents($file);
-		if($json===false) return false;
+		if($json===false) throw new Conf\Exception("fileUnreadable");
+		return $this->import($json);
+	}
+
+	public function import(string $json): self {
+		if($json=="") throw new Conf\Exception("blank");
 		$json = json_decode($json, true);
-		if(!is_array(json)) return false;
+		if(!is_array($json)) throw new Conf\Exception("corrupt");
 		foreach($json as $key => $value) {
 			$this->$$key = $value;
 		}
-		return true;
+		return $this;
+
 	}
 
-	function export(string $file = ""): string {
+	public function export(string $file = ""): string {
 		return json_encode($this, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
 	}
 
-	function __toString(): string {
+	public function __toString(): string {
 		return $this->export();
 	}
 }
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diff --git a/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Conf/Exception.php b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Conf/Exception.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d9a6b18d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Conf/Exception.php
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+namespace JKingWeb\NewsSync\Conf;
+
+class Exception extends \JKingWeb\NewsSync\Exception {
+}
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diff --git a/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Exception.php b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Exception.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9bdc4dc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Exception.php
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+namespace JKingWeb\NewsSync;
+
+class Exception extends \Exception {
+
+	const CODES = [
+		"Exception.Misc"						=> 10000,
+		"Lang/Exception.defaultFileMissing"		=> 10101,
+		"Lang/Exception.fileMissing"			=> 10102,
+		"Lang/Exception.fileUnreadable"			=> 10103,
+		"Lang/Exception.fileCorrupt"			=> 10104,
+		"Lang/Exception.stringMissing" 			=> 10105,
+	];
+
+	public function __construct(string $msgID = "", $vars = null, Throwable $e = null) {
+		if($msgID=="") {
+			$msg = "";
+			$code = 0;
+		} else {
+			$msg = "Exception.".str_replace("\\","/",get_called_class()).".$msgID";
+			$msg = Lang::msg($msg, $vars);
+			$codeID = str_replace("\\", "/", str_replace(NS_BASE, "", get_called_class()));
+			if(!array_key_exists($codeID,self::CODES)) {
+				$code = 0;
+			} else {
+				$code = self::CODES[$codeID];
+			}
+		}
+		parent::__construct($msg, $code, $e);
+	}
+}
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diff --git a/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang.php b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1065bce4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang.php
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+namespace JKingWeb\NewsSync;
+
+class Lang {
+	const PATH = BASE."locale".DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
+	const DEFAULT = "en";
+	const REQUIRED = [
+		"Exception.JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.defaultFileMissing" => "Default language file ({0}) missing",
+		"Exception.JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.stringMissing" => "Message string \"{msgID}\" missing from all loaded language files ({fileList})"
+	];
+
+	static protected $requirementsMet = false;
+	static protected $synched = false;
+	static protected $wanted = "fr";
+	static protected $locale = "";
+	static protected $loaded = [];
+	static protected $strings = self::REQUIRED;
+
+	protected function __construct() {}
+
+	static public function set(string $locale = "", bool $immediate = false): string {
+		if(!self::$requirementsMet) self::checkRequirements();
+		if($locale=="") $locale = self::DEFAULT;
+		if($locale==self::$wanted) return $locale;
+		$list = self::listFiles();
+		if(!in_array(self::DEFAULT, $list)) throw new Lang\Exception("defaultFileMissing", self::DEFAULT);
+		self::$wanted = self::match($locale, $list);
+		self::$synched = false;
+		if($immediate) self::load();
+		return self::$wanted;
+	}
+
+	static public function get(): string {
+		return (self::$locale=="") ? self::DEFAULT : self::$locale;
+	}
+
+	static public function msg(string $msgID, $vars = null): string {
+		// if we're trying to load the system default language and it fails, we have a chicken and egg problem, so we catch the exception and load no language file instead
+		if(!self::$synched) try {self::load();} catch(Lang\Exception $e) {
+			if(self::$wanted==self::DEFAULT) {
+				self::set();
+				self::load();
+			} else {
+				throw $e;
+			} 
+		}
+		if(!array_key_exists($msgID, self::$strings)) throw new Lang\Exception("stringMissing", ['msgID' => $msgID, 'fileList' => implode(", ",self::$loaded)]);
+		// variables fed to MessageFormatter must be contained in array
+		if($vars !== null && !is_array($vars)) $vars = [$vars];
+		return \MessageFormatter::formatMessage(self::$locale, self::$strings[$msgID], $vars);
+	}
+
+	static public function list(string $locale = ""): array {
+		$out = [];
+		$files = self::listFiles();
+		foreach($files as $tag) {
+			$out[$tag] = \Locale::getDisplayName($tag, ($locale=="") ? $tag : $locale); 		
+		}
+		return $out;
+	}
+
+	static public function match(string $locale, array $list = null): string {
+		if($list===null) $list = self::listFiles();
+		$default = (self::$locale=="") ? self::DEFAULT : self::$locale;
+		return \Locale::lookup($list,$locale, true, $default);
+	}
+
+	static protected function checkRequirements(): bool {
+		if(!extension_loaded("intl")) throw new FatalException("The \"Intl\" extension is required, but not loaded");
+		self::$requirementsMet = true;
+		return true;
+	}
+	
+	static protected function listFiles(string $path = self::PATH): array {
+		$out = glob($path."*.php");
+		return array_map(function($file) {
+			$file = substr($file,strrpos($file,DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR)+1);
+			return strtolower(substr($file,0,strrpos($file,".")));
+		},$out);
+	}
+
+	static protected function load(): bool {
+		self::$synched = true;
+		if(!self::$requirementsMet) self::checkRequirements();
+		// if we've yet to request a locale, just load the fallback strings and return
+		if(self::$wanted=="") {
+			self::$strings = self::REQUIRED;
+			self::$locale = self::$wanted;
+			return true;
+		}
+		// decompose the requested locale from specific to general, building a list of files to load
+		$tags = \Locale::parseLocale(self::$wanted);
+		$files = [];
+		$loaded = [];
+		$strings = [];
+		while(sizeof($tags) > 0) {
+			$files[] = \Locale::composeLocale($tags);
+			$tag = array_pop($tags);
+		}
+		// include the default locale as the base if the most general locale requested is not the default
+		if($tag != self::DEFAULT) $files[] = self::DEFAULT;
+		// save the list of files to be loaded for later reference
+		$loaded = $files;
+		// reduce the list of files to be loaded to the minimum necessary (e.g. if we go from "fr" to "fr_ca", we don't need to load "fr" or "en")
+		$files = [];
+		foreach($loaded as $file) {
+			if($file==self::$locale) break;
+			$files[] = $file;
+		}
+		// if we need to load all files, start with the fallback strings
+		if($files==$loaded) $strings[] = self::REQUIRED;
+		// read files in reverse order
+		$files = array_reverse($files);
+		foreach($files as $file) {
+			if(!file_exists(self::PATH."$file.php")) throw new Lang\Exception("fileMissing", $file);
+			if(!is_readable(self::PATH."$file.php")) throw new Lang\Exception("fileUnreadable", $file);
+			if(!@include(self::PATH."$file.php")) throw new Lang\Exception("fileCorrupt", $file);
+		}
+		// apply the results and return
+		self::$strings = call_user_func_array("array_replace_recursive", $strings);
+		self::$loaded = $loaded;
+		self::$locale = self::$wanted;
+		return true;
+	}
+}
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diff --git a/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.php b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c2c96638
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/Lang/Exception.php
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+namespace JKingWeb\NewsSync\Lang;
+
+class Exception extends \JKingWeb\NewsSync\Exception {
+}
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diff --git a/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/RuntimeData.php b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/RuntimeData.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..271a624e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/JKingWeb/NewsSync/RuntimeData.php
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+namespace JKingWeb\NewsSync;
+
+class RuntimeData {
+	protected $conf;
+	protected $db;
+	protected $auth;
+
+	public function __construct(Conf $conf) {
+		Lang::set();
+		$this->conf = $conf;
+		//$this->db = new Database($this);
+		//$this->auth = new Authenticator($this);
+	}
+}
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