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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request: Patch to retain SSL meta-data on redirection of a
From:       "Andreas Hartmetz" <ahartmetz () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-25 3:59:19
Message-ID: 20100325035919.23189.21624 () localhost
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> On 2010-03-24 19:06:06, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> > It might make more sense to retain the SSL metadata in KIO::Job and resend it if \
> > necessary. Is there any reason against doing that? Or possibly new metadata has \
> > to be sent from the ioslave because the SSL metadata is related to the exact \
> > hostname...
> 
> Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> Indeed this can be done at the KIO::Job level. Infact, the SSL meta-data gets lost \
> because it gets cleared on redirection! So the fix needed to be done there in order \
> to insure non KPart based applications will also benefit from it ; so I have moved \
> the patch to KIO::Job now. Thanks for the input.

I might very well have broken this some time ago because I didn't understand what \
some undocumented code did :/


- Andreas


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On 2010-03-25 03:43:41, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-03-25 03:43:41)
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> 
> Review request for kdelibs.
> 
> 
> Summary
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> 
> Currently if a KPart based application such as Konqueror calls \
> KParts::BrowserRun::scanFile to determine the mime-type of a requested resource and \
> the resulting KIO job ends up doing a redirection, the SSL related meta-data \
> information will be completely lost. This causes problems like the one mentioned in \
> comment #14 of bug report 154060. This patch addresses this problem by retaining \
> the SSL related meta-data whenever a job is redirected. 
> NOTE: this patch is NOT the complete fix for the 154060! It is only a partial fix \
> as it pertains to the KPart's library. For a complete fix 154060, the KParts \
> themselves have to be updated to catch all SSL related meta-data whenever a \
> container application calls their openUrl(...) function. For details, see the \
> implementation of kwebkitpart's openUrl. 
> 
> This addresses bug 154060.
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154060
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kio/kio/job.cpp 1106350 
> 
> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3364/diff
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> Used the link in comment #14 of bug 154060 to test the fix. It works correctly in \
> Konqueror + kwebkitpart with the fix. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dawit
> 
> 


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