Re: ORBIT, GNOME, and security

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Dietmar Maurer wrote:

> Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> > echo 'ORBIIOPIPv4=1' >> /etc/orbitrc
>
> Is there is a reason why it is disabled by default?

Because a bunch of gnome-list wankers kept complaining.

> > > And just another question: Is there a way to get object
> > > references via url (hostname,tcp_port,object_key)?
> >
> > Technically speaking, IOR:... is a URL already.
> >
> > I think CVS head has some code to handle iioploc:// and iiop:// URLs in
> > CORBA_ORB_string_to_object(), but I think there are no good reasons to use
> > these - their advantage of human readability is irrelevant, and they have
> > a big disadvantage of not encoding lots of information useful to the ORB.
> 
> I have some remote server. How can I get a object reference without using
> human readable urls?

CORBA_ORB_string_to_object() - the normal 'IOR:...' syntax. Or use
something like OAF that takes care of bootstrapping for you.

-- Elliot
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