Most authentication is not handled using Basic auth. Sorry. It's form based in most applications I work with. Each user gets a session cookie.
Now, obviously, basic auth does exist in some apps. Just, it totally leaves out an entire class of applications. On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 22:32 +0200, Christian Kellner wrote: > Hey, > > > So, as you design a new VFS, please keep this in mind. It would be nice > > to have a way to solve the technical problem of the browser passing the > > cookies to the application. Or as another possibility, having the > > browser and the application share the same connection using GVFS, and > > thereby, the same cookies. > > This is not really a problem of how gnome-vfs (or later GVFS) is > designed. If we had something like a central cookie store we could > already do implement that with gnome-vfs. Using the same *connection* > would be possible if the browser would use the http method of gnome-vfs > for its i/o and I think that is really, really bad idea for various > reasons. > I totally see the point about re-using cookies but on the other hand if > you have the password saved in the session keyring Abiword (if using > gnome-vfs) could just ask the keyring and all you need to do is click on > the "Allow" button of the keyring. I am not sure its worth the effort to > re-use cookies to avoid that one click. ;-) > > Cheers, > Christian > > P.s.: gnome-vfs' http method doesn't care about cookies at all right > now, we just re-send the AUTH header everytime which I guess breaks > session handling for some (a lot?) web applications. > _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
