From kde-core-devel  Wed Jun 14 18:44:45 2000
From: Geert Jansen <g.t.jansen () stud ! tue ! nl>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:44:45 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Authentication and kio_http
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Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 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.

Probably it doesn't even need to be extended. Think of (this part of) kdesud
as a persistent QMap<QCString,QCString>. I'm sure SSL certificates can
somehow be folded into this concept.

Greetings,
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