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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kio_http pops up warning boxes
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-08-04 0:19:50
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:53:16PM -0400, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, David Faure wrote:
> > A friend of mine is using konqueror over a proxy,
> > and he gets many many message boxes from kio_http
> > (via KIO::SlaveBase::warning()) saying:
> > 
> > "10 mjguh5:8080 "Remote server was not contacted, document may be
> > out-of-date""
> > 
> > This comes from the HTTP answer from the server, which contains "Warning: ..."
> > 
> > This one can safely be hidden away, that's for sure.
> > The question is, are there other warnings that shouldn't be hidden ?
> > I'm thinking, for instance, about security-related warnings, if any...
> > 
> > Is there some specification for those warnings ? I guess "10"
> > is a "warning code" ? If so, which ones should be ignore, and
> > which ones should pop up a message box ?
> 
> Not really :))  Well at least not for HTTP 1.1 ( look at 14.46 in RFC 2616 docs
> under kdelibs/kio/http)  Warning headers are meant mostly to deal with caching
> and nothing else.  Infact, though you are allowed to add "Warning header" in
> the response.  I think we can safely ignore these for now.  I will comment this
> out until I get the full meaning of what the Warning header is supposed to
> accomplish.  But you can rest assured that it currently (as defined by the
> spec) has nothing concerned with security.  Anyways, why would we trust what
> some remote machine tells us... :)

Ok, I used infoMessage() instead of warning() so that those warnings
still appear but in the statusbar (or the progress dialog).

-- 
David FAURE
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