Hard freeze exception request... (KIO::AccessManager)

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 27 November 2009 7:39:05 pm Dawit A. wrote:
> I would like to apply the attached patch to KIO::AccessManager inspite of the 
> recently passed hard freeze deadline. 
> 
> The patch adds a couple of convinence functions for setting/getting KDE 
> cookiejar's window id and a couple more for accessing/setting the request and 
> session KIO meta-data. This way anyone re-implementing KIO::AccessManager to 
> perform things like request filtering (e.g. ad blockers) would not be burdened 
> with having to re-implement all the functionality that currently exists in a 
> private re-implementation of this class in kdelibs/kdewebkit. It also makes 
> the private re-implementation class kdelibs/kdewebkit/networkaccessmanager_p.* 
> and the awkwardly placed pure virtual function (authorizedRequest) in kwebpage 
> unnecessary.
> 
> Additionally the patch also changes the behavior of KIO::AccessManager so that 
> its cookiejar support is by default changed to use KDE's cookiejar. I am not 
> entirely sure whether or not such change violates BC since it is a change from 
> current behavior. However, it does not make sense for a KDE integration class 
> not to use available KDE facilities by default. 
> 
> Even if the above behavior change is not allowed, I would like to commit 
> everything else. 
> 
No objections.