Don Baccus wrote:
On Jun 6, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Jeff Rogers wrote:
Well my question for now is, if this was fixed/changed in a way
like I've suggested, how long would it be before OpenACS could take
advantage of the change?
Wouldn't it just work automagically if the filter were run and
context set up properly by rp_filter?
Hrm, I guess that's true for what I suggested (modulo a config file
addition).
I was thinking in the bigger context I suggested tho - if aolserver
implemented a new feature that OpenACS could make use of (particularly
in core packages), how many releases would need to go by before it could
be used. As a contrived example, if authentication (in the sense of
Ns_AuthorizeRequest) could be done by a tcl callback, then rp_filter
could be a authorization proc instead of a preauth filter, but it would
then be incompatible with a version of the server that did not support that.
Of course, this is all theoretical right now. It would be a lot easier
to reason about it if there was a real use case.
-J
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