Re: Who knows ANYTHING about broadway / HTML5 backend?

[Tarnyko <tarnyko tarnyko net>]

Hi Daniel, 

I guess that if I wanted it to work in its current state, I would have a CGI 
(or other) app handling authentication, and if successful spawning the GTK+ 
application on a new IP port and redirecting the user to this port. 

Subsequent connections to this IP port should be protected by some web 
server magic (reading a password database). 

But I agree that it would be nice if such a feature was supported 
out-of-the-box. 

Regardsn
Tarnyko 

Daniel Kasak writes: 

> Fair enough. Good to see someone answer ;) The other question I posted to
> an app-devel list or something like that. I can deal with not being able to
> resize / maximise for now. What I'm not clear on is security. The way I
> assumed it would work was this: 
>
> - I write a simple login page that checks credentials in a DB
> - If login is successful, an authentication key is generated, an instance
> of broadwayd is spawned on a new port, an instance of the app is spawned,
> and pointed ( somehow ) at the correct instance of broadwayd, and the key
> and port is returned to the client's browser 
>
> What happens from here on is less clear. The browser would have to keep
> passing this key back to broadwayd or the app? Can we use https or tunnel
> through ssh? Is anything like this implemented already? 
>
> From what I've seen with my limited testing, the default setup basically
> allows anyone to hit the IP / port that broadway is running on, and take
> over control of the app. 
>
> Any thoughts? 
>
> Dan 
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Jasper St. Pierre
> <jstpierre mecheye net>wrote: 
>
> > Hi Daniel, 
> >
> > I can only find one email to this list about this, which is about
> > maximizing windows on Broadway. I'm sorry I didn't reply, but I was busy
> > that day. I do remember investigating the question before getting poked to
> > do something else instead. 
> >
> > Broadway is indeed not "officially" supported, in that it's not ready for
> > production. 
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Daniel Kasak <d j kasak dk gmail com>wrote: 
> >
> > > Hi all. Unfortunately, my last couple of posts to various gtk lists on
> > > this topic have had ZERO replies :( 
> > >
> > > This is giving me the impression that broadway is not officially
> > > supported, and possibly developed and maintained by a single person. Is
> > > this the case? Does anyone know who I'd contact who does know about
> > > broadway status? 
> > >
> > > Dan 
> > >
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> >
> >
> > --
> >   Jasper