Hi all, Just my regular reminder regarding usage of QNetworkAccessManager in your applications and libraries, especially when it comes to interacting with kde.org infrastructure.
Unfortunately, from it's first iteration in Qt 4 QNetworkAccessManager was shipped with a severe and fundamental defect in that it does not follow HTTP redirects by default. Due to Qt behavioural and other compatibility promises they can never change this behaviour, not even in Qt 6. Please therefore ensure your application handles redirects appropriately (the form of the code will depend on the version of Qt in use) if you decide to use QNAM. Failure to do so can, depending on your code, lead to crashes or hangs within your applications. If I recall right the Qt Installer Framework (Qt 4) crashes when it encounters a redirect (it caused the Necessitas SDK installer to crash anyway). Not handling redirects restricts the ability of Sysadmin to change infrastructure as needed - so please ensure you get this right. If you'd like to avoid all of this: just use KIO - which gets it right and handles redirects out of the box for you. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
