Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] GIO and HTTP auth

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 10:47 -0700, Adam Zimmerman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Back in August, I finished up some more work on the Magnatune plugin to
> get it working with their new account feature. The basic idea is that
> for streaming accounts, it would give rhythmbox a URL for a file,
> without the username and password components. These files sit behind
> HTTP auth, and when the user tried to play the file, rhythmbox would ask
> it for their username and password, and give them the option of storing
> it.

What's actually streaming the files? We don't call
gnome_authentication_manager_init() anymore on startup to set the
gnome-vfs callbacks. Is it gnome-vfs code trying to stream the files?

Cheers