[pca] password protecting the proxy server
Martin Paul
martin at par.univie.ac.at
Thu Aug 7 14:37:35 CEST 2008
> martin> xrefurl=http://user:passwd@host/pca/pca-proxy.cgi
> martin> patchurl=http://user:passwd@host/pca/pca-proxy.cgi
>
> This is the kind of functionality I was looking for, but I wasn't sure if
> there was a separate setting for it like there is for the SOA user and passwd.
There isn't. Not that it would be to hard to add, but I tend to add new
options only when really necessary and when the functionality is asked
for by multiple users - I think pca already has more options than ls :)
> Will the above example break xref/patch retrieval In the case where the local
> patch proxy isn't available, and the client host tries to fall back to
> sunsolve? Would it be better (possible) to set localurl to
> http://user:passwd@host/pca/pca-proxy.cgi ?
I obviously didn't state that clearly in the docs. The localurl is
deprecated, and xrefurl/patchurl are direct replacements. I did that to
make it possible to specify different *local* URLs for xref and patches,
but the *url settings still apply only to the local patch server - think
of xrefurl as localxrefurl. pca will always fall back to
sunsolve.sun.com if xrefurl/patchurl fail, so you're fine with the
example settings I used.
Martin.
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