Re: NoCatSplash v0.90 released (finally)

* On 22-Nov-2004 at  8:20PM PST, Scott C. Lemon said:
> 
> I am *very* interested in the Passive Mode operation.  You seem to be aware
> of potential problems ... Can you give me any ideas of why you feel it is
> "probably broken"?  What is it that makes you suspect?  Have you tested it
> much?

Well, it still forks out to GnuPG. So you need to have GnuPG on the
same platform. I think all the code is written, but I never got done
testing it, really, and I suspect it just needs to be debugged. Also,
it blocks waiting to hear back from GnuPG, which you don't want to do
in a single-threaded network server, but there are a couple of
examples of setting up event callbacks with g_io_add_watch() scattered
throughout the code base.

> I just downloaded the code and am going to start looking ... I'm hoping that
> the compile-time option is obvious!  ;-)

./configure --with-mode=passive

The README may be of service, as well as ./configure --help.

> Also ... Are you suggesting that I run this against a v0.82 auth server?

That was the idea.

Probably someone should write a different data sharing protocol (at
worst just using an external stunnel or something) and do away with
GnuPG entirely. GnuPG might have been a nice idea when we hoped people
would have gateways talk to multiple auth services. But OTOH we can
still do that with outgoing HTTPS connections, or whatever. I didn't
want to require the authserver to maintain state, but that was as much
laziness on my part as anything, I think.

SDE