- From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 12:56:12 +0100 (MET)
- To: John Mitchell <johnm@non.net>
- Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
John Mitchell writes: > Jigsaw doesn't seem to be acting gracefully in the face of errors in the > configuration processes. > > I did the steps in the Jigsaw configuration tutorial but there was a > problem writing out the information to the location specified. The only > error notice was spit out to the console (i.e., no obvious user > notification). This is a Bad Thing(tm). > > So, Jigsaw has an GenericAuthFilter in place but there's no authentication > information for it to use so I can't get in to fix things (after restarting > the server and browser). Shouldn't this bitch and moan that it can't get > the information that it's expecting? Yes, indeed. There is work currently on that area, through a remote admin facility. The results of that work should be: a) A spec for a remote admin protocol (currently under work) b) A GUI config tool (may be an applet, for the time being a full app) In the meantime, we'll have to live with the BadThings(tm) Anselm.
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