On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:12:53PM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > As I played around with it, I found the HTTP approach more feasible > and less ugly than the mimetype handler approach. At first I figured > the idea of running a local HTTP server would be a bit ugly, and Owen > thought of some security concerns, but there's nothing too critical > (or unsolvable) that I know of. The only "ugly" thing from a code > perspective is that there's a magic port number: 16269. It's not on > the IANA Registered Ports list, so I doubt there's going to be a > collision.
Won't that break down in two cases: 1. Proxy set in the browser User/sysadmin has to explicitly exclude localhost from being proxied 2. Multiple users or sessions on the same machine Only the first session can use it. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
