On Jun 13, 2015 4:28 AM, "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 15:49 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > > > > But that's not even right. Suppose you have a captive portal that > > wants you to log in via your Google account. It can send you do > > https://accounts.google.com, and your browser can verify the > > certificate and show you an indication that the connection is secure. > > Then you really can safely enter your password. > > Hmmm, I didn't realize legitimate portals might take you to the public > Internet.
I think I've seen this in airports and in some hotel chains. > It'd be nice to not show > http://www.gnome.org (the test URL we load, expecting to be hijacked) > if the portal decides not to redirect you to a new URI (not sure how > common that is), but I think we will have to or we can't fix this.... It could be http://generic-network-login.org or something like that. > > > I think the UI should look like a real browser except that it should > > clearly indicate that it's a "Log in to wireless network" browser in > > addition to showing a standard URL bar. > > > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749197 > > Can you please CC me on that bug? I didn't know GNOME Bugzilla even had > private bugs. :D Done. I don't think I'm the one who made it private. > > > > FWIW the tech used for GNOME apps that need a web view is > > > WebKitGTK+. > > > > Can that provide real chrome? > > The web view is a GtkWidget: you pack it like any other GtkWidget into > your hierarchy, and put your own chrome around it. In this case, a URL > bar would not make any sense since we don't want the user changing the > URL; we'll probably want to display an unmodifiable URL alongside a > security indicator. I guess the reason to keep it read-only is to prevent people from using it like a real browser. --Andy > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
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