[Qt-interest] [webkit-qt] Windows authentication

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quinta-feira 22. Abril 2010, às 16.40.45, Srdjan Todorovic escreveu:
> On 16 April 2010 22:50, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > Em Sexta-feira 16. Abril 2010, às 23.30.57, Sylvain Pointeau escreveu:
> >> Please Nokia, could you implement the Windows Authentication? it would
> >> be so good.
> > 
> > Vote for the task that Henry gave you the link to.
> > 
> > But we are in no rush to implement NTLMv2. That task has existed for a
> > number of years now.
> 
> Forgive my ignorance, but why are you (Nokia) in no rush to implement this?

Because there are other things of higher priority in the networking side.

For example:
 - Zero-copy passing of data
 - SSL updates (EV, revocation, TLS 1.1 to 1.4, renegotiation, session 
	support, certificate and key creation, on-demand identification)
 - DNSSEC
 - performance in the HTTP stack (pipelining, throughput, latency)
 - multipart MIME support (for POST and PUT)

Not to mention that the networking team is the same team as the rest of I/O, 
so they are also working on File I/O performance, which requires rewriting the 
entire file engine code, and write a new backend for Symbian.

We understand that there are people and company that want this, but given the 
relative priority, it may not get done. It's easier to get this contributed in 
instead.

I should point out that I have received a requirement for this for an 
important client (no, not Nokia). So the priority might change.

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