[webkit-gtk] Authentication Scheme API

Brian Holt brian.holt at samsung.com
Wed Nov 20 02:55:48 PST 2013


Hi Denis, 

Thanks for working on this! The names seem reasonable to me, looking forward
to seeing the patch.

Regards
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: webkit-gtk-bounces at lists.webkit.org [mailto:webkit-gtk-
> bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Denis Nomiyama
> Sent: 14 November 2013 14:58
> To: webkit-gtk at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: [webkit-gtk] Authentication Scheme API
> 
> Hello WebKitGtk+,
> 
> I am working on an API to enable authentication schemes [1] as
> initially suggested in the mailing list [2].
> The idea is to provide an API to enable authentication schemes like
> NTLM, which is not enabled by default, and the API should be generic
> enough to be extended to other schemes that will potentially be
> supported by libsoup in the future [3].
> 
> gboolean
> webkit_web_context_get_authentication_scheme_enabled
> 
> (WebKitWebContext *context,
> 
> WebKitAuthenticationScheme scheme);
> 
> void
> webkit_web_context_set_authentication_scheme_enabled
> 
> (WebKitWebContext *context,
> 
> WebKitAuthenticationScheme scheme,
>                                                          gboolean
> enabled);
> 
> I used WebKitAuthenticationScheme from WebKitAuthenticationRequest to
> identify the scheme but I think a new enum will be needed because for
> instance libsoup currently expects only basic, digest and NTLM.
> The names are still provisory, so please comments and feedback are
> welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> Denis
> 
> [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122952
> [2] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2013-
> October/001614.html
> [3] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2013-
> October/001615.html
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