Re: WebDAV browser integration

[Christian Kellner <gicmo gnome org>]

Hey,

> So, as you design a new VFS, please keep this in mind. It would be nice
> to have a way to solve the technical problem of the browser passing the
> cookies to the application. Or as another possibility, having the
> browser and the application share the same connection using GVFS, and
> thereby, the same cookies.

This is not really a problem of how gnome-vfs (or later GVFS) is
designed. If we had something like a central cookie store we could
already do implement that with gnome-vfs. Using the same *connection*
would be possible if the browser would use the http method of gnome-vfs
for its i/o and I think that is really, really bad idea for various
reasons.
I totally see the point about re-using cookies but on the other hand if
you have the password saved in the session keyring Abiword (if using
gnome-vfs) could just ask the keyring and all you need to do is click on
the "Allow" button of the keyring. I am not sure its worth the effort to
re-use cookies to avoid that one click. ;-)

Cheers,
Christian

P.s.: gnome-vfs' http method doesn't care about cookies at all right
now, we just re-send the AUTH header everytime which I guess breaks
session handling for some (a lot?) web applications.