Re: [Evolution-hackers] online/offline in e-d-s

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:01 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 02:30 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 06:28 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > 
> > > > IIRC, we talked the other day about having a new notification from the
> > > > backends to the clients (notify_needs_authentication, or notify_error
> > > > with a specific error code that marks the NEEDS_AUTHENTICATION part),
> > > > and so have the client re-call the _open method. How does that sound?
> > > > any other idea you have came to?
> > > Isn't that what it does already?  Its a pity it can't ask for a password based on key.
> > > 
> > not the calendar backends, they get the username/password in the _open
> > call. And the password is obtained on the client part :(
> Hmm, but don't you know you need it from a failed open?
> 
well, we really don't, we retry the _open call when it fails. The client
is responsible of getting the password and sending it to the backends.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>