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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Outstanding critical issue for KDE 2.2
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-02 4:29:48
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On Thursday 02 August 2001 00:09, Andreas Pour wrote:

> > > I haven't seen any CERT on IE's data-caching, though I have read some
> > > news reports.  Users like it anyway.  I think we can one-up this with
> > > the "let the user decide" approach.
> >
> >    There have been against konqueror though.  Guess who had to deal with
> > it.
>
> Yes, and I am sorry for that.  But that had to deal with the transport
> layer and authentication, which is part of the SSL protocol and a
> failure there is serious.  The SSL protocol (at least version 3.0) does
> not say anything about how you treat the data on the local machine or in
> memory.

   It's common sense not to store these things to disk by default.  You don't 
need a spec to tell you that.  If a user wants to do so, let him enable it 
himself (just the way HTML mail is handled in KMail).

-- 

George Staikos

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