[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 28173] New: [GTK] Remove keyring optional features

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28173

           Summary: [GTK] Remove keyring optional features
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit Gtk
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: xan.lopez at gmail.com


Per bug #26242, providing optional keyring support in webkitgtk+ itself can be
quite problematic for distributors and application developers, and would force
us to ship a runtime introspection system to see the features the library you
are using has enabled.

For that reason I propose to move the keyring support to libsoup instead, which
already has a system like that, and where applications will be able to
trivially choose to enable it or not. The only downside of this is that we'll
need to figure out a way to store auth data from forms in keyring from
applications/libsoup, since webkit won't be able to depend on it directly. I
think that will be doable though, since other ports are already doing it.

Attached is a first patch to use the extra auth support available in the
'keyring' branch in libsoup git. If this is approved we'll commit both this
patch and that branch to master at the same time.

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