On Monday, 2013-12-02, 15:34:34, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 15:16 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Monday, 2013-12-02, 09:40:12, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Le Lun 2 décembre 2013 00:59, David Faure a écrit : > > > > (same with any other content application that can handle HTTP urls on > > > > its > > > > own; > > > > same with other schemes that apps might support, like FTP). > > > > > > Having managed a very large proxy configuration for some years (150k+ > > > users, high-availability) I can tell you that pretty much any > > > application > > > that pretends talking http lies, and only full browsers implement > > > (mostly) > > > the complete http spec (including error handling) > > > > David obviously looks at this from a KDE perspective, where the same HTTP > > implemention is used by all applications, including the browser. > > IIRC it can even transfer a session from one application to another, e.g. > > avoiding the one-time-URL problem. > > If I use Opera, Firefox or Chrome in KDE, I'm not sure it magically uses > the same HTTP implementation.
Sure, but David also mentioned that we enable users to tell our URL handling code to delegate HTTP always to a certain program/browser and was, in my interpretation, discussing the implications on the standard setup. So, within this assumed context, I was pointing out to Nicolas that the HTTP implemention in question was "browser capable". Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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