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See bug 19258 and bug 22108. There is a need for an eclipse global set of API and UI to manage proxys and auto-proxys. I will cc Core as this team may also need to be involved.
For this to be very useful, there is a need to have a password repository. I don't know if/what eclipse propose now on the subject, but observed usage patterns of netaccess and common browsers suggest that the user will store once his password for a proxy/realm/whatever, and forget about it till the next time he is obliged to change it. So the passwords need to be persisted, and need to be stored in a secure way. Secure, and reversible, and difficult to decrypt (as we cannot rely on file system permissions), even with the source code of the encryption mechanism available to anybody who care to download it. Is there some mechanism planned to authenticate user at logon in eclipse ?
bug 22108 is supposed to resolve the common authentication. As of today there are API to access a keystore: See org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.AuthorizationDatabase
1) see : http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0599/faq/faq0599.asp for auto proxy configuration description 2) org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.AuthorizationDatabase has 2 limitations : 2a) it is internal, and as such, if I remember the doc, subject to change ;) 2b) It expect (by default) to work on urls and realms. Example of real life pac files suggest that the url is unknown at first, and the proxy is selected by pattern matching. So, I think there is a need to have some urlAnalyzer, parametrized from a pac file, which determine the id of the (user,password) pair to use for a given connection. Once this id is calculated, all the url/realm/scheme of AuthorizationDatabase can be forgotten. 3) One other problem I see, and it is more a java one : there is presently (as of JDK 1.4) only one default authenticator for the whole jvm (correct me if I'm wrong). How are we supposed to manage the case when one eclipse needs to have two (or more) connections to different servers simultanously, using differents proxies ?
see also : http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html
I am going to mark this as WONTFIX as this is a stale request
