Joern Nettingsmeier schrieb:
> drat. i just read the BaseURLModule, and it looks like proxies will only
> work if every single fscking lenya component uses that module... why oh
> why?
> 
> what is the advantage of hauling around proxy objects for every single
> page and requiring to code proxy awareness into every sitemap? why don't
> we just toss in a global link rewriter that will take care of it all?

I'm not sure if it's that easy. Some people want to protect the whole
site, some only single pages, some only the login usecase.


> can anyone enlighten me what the design goals are?

I'm not sure either. The only thing I know is that the SSL checkbox
is used to configure the pages which should require SSL, and that
the ProxyUrlModule can determine the URLs accordingly.


> currently i don't
> know how to approach this issue...
> the most obvious solution would be to rip all existing proxy support out
> and add it to the existing link rewriter. but surely there must be a
> reason why it is not done?

I'm not sure if there is a reason.

> i see how this will cause problems if people rely on the per-page ssl
> checkbox, but imho that is quite a corner case. it's far more important
> to be able to ssl-encrypt access to the authoring area easily and to be
> able to protect some usecases...

OK, I'd be interested in a proposal (see my mail "SSL handling").

Thanks for your comments,

-- Andreas

-- 
Andreas Hartmann, CTO
BeCompany GmbH
http://www.becompany.ch


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