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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Authentication and kio_http
From:       Kurt Granroth <granroth () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-06-14 17:00:46
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On the other hand the functionality offered by the HTTP
> authentication server is not that much (maybe 40 lines of code?) so
> it is tempting to combine it with something else... but what? The
> cookiejar? Maybe we should rename it into the "httpdaemon" then? Put
> it in the kio-lib? The HTTP authentication would be bound to the
> application then, but this is probably not to bad.  Putting it in
> kde_su is a bad idea because we want to have as little as possible
> in that process. The uiserver doesn't seem to be an attractive
> place... although it tends to be running anyway. Ideas anyone?

Why is using kdesu a problem?  We already *are* using it for HTTP
authentication a little.... I don't see why we can't extend it to do
SSL certificates as well.
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