Re: tls-ftp and GConf

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:44, Andy Hanton wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 04:11, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > At the moment all gnome-vfs password dialogs use
> > GnomeVFSModuleCallbackAuthenticationIn, which is very http-based. If you
> > pass AuthTypeBasic instead of AuthTypeDigest the default password dialog
> > will indeed warn you that the password is sent in plaintext.
> 
> That is good to hear.  Do you know when the authentication callback
> patch for ftp will be finished off?  It seems the changes required are
> fairly simple and it has been sitting for three months with no status
> update.  Should I finish it off if I get time?  

I haven't seen these. I have been a bit lax about reading gnome-vfs
bugzilla mail for a while. Can you point to the bug?

> I have added a timeout to gnome_vfs_inet_connection_create and used that
> to fall back to plain ftp.  I attached the new patches to bug 121713.  I
> tested it with a simple iptables firewall and it works.  I would like to
> make sure that the user is prompted for their password again when it
> falls back to regular ftp, but I can't do that until we have the
> authentication callback.  

I commented on the first patch in the bug.

> I noticed that even though the connection returns an error after 75
> seconds, the nautilus spinner keeps going.  I looked over the code, but
> I didn't find where the error handling is.  It just needs to stop the
> spinner if it gets a GNOME_VFS_ERROR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT result.  

Yeah. We'll have to add that.

Btw, I think 75 seconds is a bit long. Maybe 20 is enough?

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