PATCH - HTTP NTLM Authentication

[Thiago Macieira]

Waldo Bastian wrote:
>> Running kio_http as a helper application is more than fine. Loading
>> kio_http.so into the program might have some issues.
>
>IO-slaves are not designed to be loaded into a program. I don't know where
> you get the idea that we would ever want to do something like that.

From the SE Linux discussion. Since it can apply specific permissions and 
restrictions based on process-name, ioslaves should be invoked from the 
application that requested the I/O -- as opposed from klauncher. They 
should also get the app name.

The easiest way around is to dlopen(). Failing that, we'd have to fork() and 
launch a stub which would set its program name to something else (bearing 
in mind that SE Linux might have protections against changing the program 
name).

I'm not saying we are going to do that. But the discussion provided an 
insight into a possibility.

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