Dr Konqi still misbehaving - advice needed

[Ian Wadham]

On 01/12/2014, at 8:43 AM, Thomas Lübking wrote:

> On Sonntag, 30. November 2014 15:37:22 CEST, Andrea Iacovitti wrote:
> 
>> If i understand well the problem and the goal is to disable the use of
>> cookies, may be it could be achieved by using kio METADATA (see doc
>> file kdelibs/kio/DESIGN.metadata).
>> E.g. job->addMetaData("cookies", "none") should disable the use of
>> cookies for that job.
> 
> Cool, didn't know that =)
> 
> "Unfortunately" DrKonqi currently uses sync static KIO::NetAccess::upload(), so the patch would require to move to KIO::copy() and either turn the entire thing async (and disable the UI ;-) or add a custom nested eventloop.

And I think it does whatever it does from inside KXmlRpc::Client, a kdelibs4 class (frozen).

> I assume we've to pick the least invasive solution (make 4,4,6 use password security) - for SC4, at least.

Agreed.  Also a solution that can be released, given current KDE SC 4 release policies.

When/if Dr K is redesigned/reorganised for KF5, David Faure has suggested using
QtWebKit and QNetworkAccessManager.  See the "DrKonqi placement" thread.

Cheers, Ian W.