On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 16:08 -0500, Jerome Haltom wrote: > 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. Yeah, they are totally not in the spirit of WebDAV then; to quote RFC 2518:
"17.1 Authentication of Clients [...] WebDAV applications MUST support the Digest authentication scheme [RFC2069]. [...]" So much for the theory. And in my eyes form based auth only + cookies is lame BUT ... > Now, obviously, basic auth does exist in some apps. Just, it totally > leaves out an entire class of applications. .. I totally agree with you here and yes current behavior is not optimal. So forget about the theory and therefore I am planing to have cookie support in the http method for gvfs but of course that brings up the problem that some users may not want to sent them. Maybe a config option hidden in gconf can help? ;-) Cheers, Christian _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
