My enhancement (beyond doc) would be: * Cleanly separate authentication from authorization, with the goal of supporting more than one authentication system on the same virtual server without requiring OpenACS. We've done a good enough job if users can download the appropriate modules and then configure to support SPNEGO, DIGEST, and client-side certs, and yet provide a login form (i.e., not a browser prompt) for browser users on specific incoming networks, with little or no Tcl programming.
I suspect this is primarily of importance to enterprise deployments; I haven't heard a clamor for it from consumer/education sites. Then again, AFAICT from the documentation, OpenACS has gone a long way toward solving this problem in layers on top of (I'd almost say "in spite of") AOLServer. -- ReC -----Original Message----- From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dossy Shiobara Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Active participation (was: RE: [AOLSERVER] Minor facelift to aolserver.com) On 2008.04.08, Don Baccus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AOLserver isn't a very popular webserver, but our small world includes > people running large sites (you with your 10,000 sockets, in the OpenACS > case university environments with 40,000 users running on our e-learning > platform). It's important that the community be involved, and that > changes not simply be made, announced in release notes, by fiat. Great! I agree. Lets try to come up with a list of 5 enhancements that we can all agree would be "a good improvement" and start working towards that. At the top of everyone's list seems to be "improved documentation." What else? ... Eventually, we will settle on a list of things that we've eventually arrived at through this consensus-forming process. At that point, Don (or Tom), how do we go about actually accomplishing these tasks and completing these changes? Do we have any workable way of solving that problem? -- Dossy Shiobara | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
