Re: Download manager and proxies

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi,
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 23:09 -0500, Adam Hooper wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 14:13 +1100, Peter Harvey wrote:
> > While the file broker idea sounds very nice, what of the more advanced
> > aspects of HTTP than just 'GET' requests? How will we handle cookies? Or
> > authentication?
> > 
> > Unless the Epiphany project itself provides the backend downloader (via
> > embedded Mozilla code) I think we'll see problems in the implementation.
> > For that reason, maybe this project does belong in Epiphany (as the home
> > of Mozilla-in-Gnome). Thoughts?
> 
> Beats me. Curl (http://curl.haxx.se/) can do GET and POST, cookies, and
> authentication. With enough fringe case testing, it might be possible to
> get a browser-independent backend working 100%. However, we'd need to
> have a knowledgeable programmer -- in both "real" HTTP and "the fucked
> up world we live in" HTTP. (Plus FTP, HTTPS, etc....)

I think the problem is not handling of cookies and auth in the external
downloader; the problem is how to hand off cookies and existing auth
tokens to the external downloader from the browser.

Regards,
	Christian