From kde-core-devel  Fri Apr 30 18:14:05 2010
From: Rolf Eike Beer <kde () opensource ! sf-tec ! de>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:14:05 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Request for adding internal meta-data support to KIO...
Message-Id: <201004302014.05728.kde () opensource ! sf-tec ! de>
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Dawit A wrote:
> On Thursday, April 29, 2010 02:14:45 Rolf Eike Beer wrote:

> > My point is less a thing that this (or any other) slave will do or not
> > with this data now or in one year. My point is that when this is some
> > internal state of whatever kind than we should under no way allow remote
> > systems to influence that in any way but through our code that does it
> > explicitely. It's the same like you make class members private instead
> > of making them public and hoping that noone will touch them if you name
> > them
> > _private_member_foo.
>=20
> Again there is no way for a remote system to influence the meta-data
> system, internal or otherwise, right now unless the developer of an
> ioslave implicitly allows it to do so. As such I fail to see how you can
> protect against that by using special characters in the keyword. If the
> developer is going to expose it to influence by the remote system, what
> stops him from simply adding the keyword directly ? To me it is simply a
> pointless exercise since you cannot control what a developer will do in
> the end. What you are saying would make a great deal of sense if we
> automatically mapped meta-data sent by a remote system directly into our
> internal scheme, but we do not do that.

Ok, so if there is no way to put "global" entries in the metadata everythin=
g=20
is fine. The HTTP ioslave e.g. puts everything in the Content-Disposition=20
header as Content-Disposition-foo in the metadata. If noone inserts un-pref=
ixed=20
wildcard data in the metadata we're save.

Eike

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