- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:20:41 +0900
- To: public-qa-dev@w3.org
Ville, On Friday, Jan 24, 2003, at 05:30 Asia/Tokyo, Ville Skyttä wrote: > Sanity checking myself, how does this sound to you: > > 1) The default is the hostname (or domain) of the first encountered > resource requiring basic authentication. Hostname or domain? Hostname is the safe side. As a user, I'd be happy if it were the domain, but... On the other hand, a few agents I know try what they have in their keychain for the domain when prompted for auth. This is a point worth discussing on w-v, maybe. > 2) We can't ask this multiple times in the online version. Actually, > we > can only ask it before any output has been sent, which means that it > is supported only for resources in the same domain|hostname as the > initial URI. Sounds good. > 3) The command line version could ask it multiple times whenever > needed, unless a "trusted domain" was given in the command line. > If it was, only forward the credentials to the matching resources, > and don't prompt for others while checking. [disclaimer - never used the cmdline version] is there an option for "cron'd" mode? I assume some people want the script to run totally not-interactively, so there should be an option for this, other than giving a trusted domain. > 4) Of course, there could be an input field for the regexp in the > online > version, but IMHO that's overkill. Agreed. -- Olivier
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