Services working during Site Maintenance mode

interesting, I am wondering if Deploy Module actually does this: put site into maintenance mode to block normal users, then push data back and forth via Services with privileged access.

I second this... What can be done? I'm currently developing a site that needs to be launched along with its iPhone App counter-part, and in order to do all my dev of both, services needs to work. Is their a solution to this, or am I going to have to create a coming soon "home page" instead of using maintenance mode?

I don't think this is possible. You have to go through a standard Drupal menu callback as part of your request and Drupal is kicking it back before you even get to Services. There may be some kind of wacky hook_init() stuff we can do, but it would be somewhat ugly.

Yeah, I realize this and I'm developing a module that pretty much does what the maintenance mode does, but its really just a page theme switcher that arguments the URI at the init hook. Then you can manage it in the CMS, and not the settings.php file... Also it will allow coming soon message/titles, and it will work services. Maintenance mode will disable any PDA devise connection on production sites and this can't happen in such a portable age. Thanks heyrocker for your response.

As pointed out in #4 this isn't really possible and certainly isn't a service feature.

Note that in D7 you can possibly use the Maintenance Exemptions module

http://drupal.org/project/maintenance_exempt

It looks like D7 exposes some hooks which might make this possible, so I've moved this issue to that version and reopened as a possible feature request.

Trying to clear out the 7.3 issue queue, will move these to 7.4 when it opens

In order to implement this functionality we should add new checkbox to endpoint that will controll whether endpoint should be accessible when site is in maintenance mode and using hook_menu_site_status_alter() allow users to access that endpoint.

Volunteers to implement this feature are very welcome!

No takers

Hello, i think it should be as

/*
 *  Implements hook_menu_site_status_alter().
 */
function my_module_menu_site_status_alter(&$menu_site_status, $path) {
  if ($menu_site_status == MENU_SITE_OFFLINE) {
    $paths = '';
    foreach (services_endpoint_load_all() as $endpoint) {
      if (empty($endpoint->disabled)) {
        // Add endpoint path with wildcard for all requests handling.
        $paths .= $endpoint->path . '/*' . PHP_EOL;
      }
    }
    // Allow access to services endpoints even if site is in offline mode.
    if (drupal_match_path($path, $paths)) {
      $menu_site_status = MENU_SITE_ONLINE;
    }
  }
}

*for drupal 7