Brian Cameron wrote:
> 
> LSARC:
> 
> The case materials have been updated to reflect that HTTPS support
> will be disabled.  See attached updated onepager and a diff file
> that shows the differences between this version of the onepager and
> the previous version.

I'm comeing to this issue late.  However I disagree with disabling HTTPS 
support for the reasons that were given.

This is a toolkit it isn't an end application.  Doing this disabling of 
HTTPS makes us unnecessarily different to other platforms that provide 
WebKit.

If the issue is just that OpenSolaris doesn't have set of well known (ie 
the big public CA's) SSL trust anchors then lets fix that problem - it 
is actually known and is being addressed by the solaris security team.
We shouldn't punish projects like this for that deficiency, particularly 
since it is possible for the admin/developer to rectify the situation.

Also this is really no different several other similar cases with SSL.

If HTTPS is not enabled then I will derail this case and call for a vote.

-- 
Darren J Moffat

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