[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Update Manager and HTTP based authentication

[Christophe Elek <celek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Xavier Maysonnave <xavier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:atsr8q$gof$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: 

> Sure, it should work. Even I don't know how it could work and when.
> is it when the update manager try to retrieve the site.xml file ?
> is it when a user try to download an updated plugin ?
> In our case, you can take a look on our website, our login are stored
> in database.
> 
> I imagine and maybe I am wrong that a popup should come when one of
> our user try to update his plugin.
> 
> The usecase I think is the following.
> Through the update manager a new bookmark is created with our site.xml
> URL. 
> 
> When the user click on this link a popup comes and he types his login 
> and password. After that as you have described in previous posts on
> this mailing list we can imagine a more complex situation where
> specific site.xml is sended.
> 
> Am I wrong ?

Nope, that is exactly what basic authentication in , let's say Apache, will 
show
try to setup a authentication in the directory where site.xml is, when the 
user will click on the bookmarks, we will opena URl connection, the Apache 
server will ask for authentication, we will prompt the user, and pass the 
userid/password back...

try it, and let me know if you need me to explain more or if I didn't make 
sense at all

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Christophe Elek
Eclipse Project
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