Re: [lwip-devel] [patch #9576] Adding authorization cookie management

[Giuseppe Modugno]

I'm sorry. I thought the messages on the list related to patch were 
pushed on Savannah too. Again, I'm sorry.


Il 28/02/2018 16:16, Simon Goldschmidt ha scritto:
> Would you mind keeping the discussion in one place?
> I.e. please respond in the patch entry, not to the list.
> This helps re-reading the discussion in the future.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
> > Giuseppe Modugno wrote:
> > Il 28/02/2018 14:07, Mike Kleshov ha scritto:
> > > Follow-up Comment #1, patch #9576 (project lwip):
> > >
> > > I'm not very familiar with various authentication schemes, but I think a
> > > number of them can be implemented without having to modify httpd.
> > Please, please, suggest one authentication scheme that can be used
> > without changing current httpd.
> >
> > > That's one
> > > reason not to apply this patch. The other one is the this: httpd is rather
> > > simple, please keep it this way.
> > Simple, but highly configurabile. My patch can be completely disabled by
> > macros, as usual in lwip. So if you don't want, don't enable it.
> >
> > Simple, but complete. IMHO a web server that isn't able to manage
> > authentication and user types/sessions (with logout, expiration after
> > some time, and so on) is useless in many situations.
> >
> > I hope there's a simpler solution to this, but I have seen many users
> > [1] in the past that ask how to add authentication in httpd without a
> > real solution.
> >
> > [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lwip-users/2017-11/msg00087.html
> >
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