Re: Restore Sessions vs. Manage Reports on Server

Hi,

in a discussion with Renaud it turned out that these features
of session saving should be removed from the GTK client for now.
So I did and removed some of the code (still archived in CVS).
However, I did not remove all unneeded code because I fear
to break the KB feature.

Best

	Jan

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:49:00AM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 03:38:40PM +0100, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> > That being said, I'm considering getting rid of session saving
> > altogether. Not many people use them, it's an under-tested feature,
> > session restoration is quite slow, and I'd like to simplify the source
> > code of nessusd as much as possible. 
> > 
> > So I'd advise you to leave that part alone for the moment. At worse,
> > I'll re-implement it "correctly" in the future, but at this time it
> > just gets in the way.
> 
> OK, so I could make it just a "Manage Reports on Server" feature in the GTK
> GUI. That means
> 
> 1. to have a special dialog to do this management
>    (2 actions: Import or Delete a Report).
>    This is essentially the corresponding list widget and buttons of the
>    current target page.
> 2. Move the configure option "store session on server" of the target
>    page to the page "general" as "store reports on server".
> 3. The option "store empty session" of the target page could be disable
>    for the GUI as it makes no real sense in this context.
> 
> This proposal is actually another view on the session-saving feature for
> the user. This view is a more narrow one than what the session-saving
> is actually able to do and it basically says: you can store your reports
> on the server and retrieve them from different clients.
> 
> Eventually, once you decided how to proceed with the session saving
> feature it is possible to change the view again and reactivate some
> GUI code.
> 
> Is this a reasonable approach?
> (quick response would be appreciated, we are trying to have Nessus
> GTK Client feature-complete by the end of this week).

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Jan-Oliver Wagner               http://intevation.de/~jan/

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