Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [PATCH] hide some sensitive information

[Miguel Rodríguez Pérez <migrax terra es>]

Ramiro Estrugo wrote:

> 2 questions about this patch:
>
> 1) Why use asterisks ?  I dunno offhand if its legal to use these in a
> URI, but regardless.  Since the URI gets written to disk, it might be
> confusing to use asterisks since these have special meaning to the unix
> shell.  Even if Nautilus deals with it properly, its weird to look at a
> file name with such characters.
I just chosen asterisks because it's what you usually get when you type 
a password in any GNOME program (GDM for instance). Anyway, maybe it's 
better to use 'x' or something like that.

> 2) Why 6 characters ?  Why not dup the whole uri, and then replace each
> of the password characters with the obfuscating char ?  That way you
> preserve the uri length, and probably make the operation a little
> cleaner.
I don't want to preserve the uri length. This way if the user changes 
his/her password the thumbnails in disk are still valid and don't have 
to be regenerated (and downloaded).
Why 6? Well, it was just a beautiful integer number...

> -re