PATCH - HTTP NTLM Authentication

[David Faure]

On Thursday 23 September 2004 16:56, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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().

Certainly not, from an ioslave point of view. KIOSlaves block on reading stuff from
the network, that's the whole reason why they're separate processes...

-- 
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