[pca] PCA stops for SunSolve account

[Martin Paul]

Laurent and Craig,

I agree on that this seems to be the same issue in both your messages. 
It's due to the changed behaviour of pca now asking for SOA data by 
default when it needs it (the former "askauth" option).

>   Rarely, the proxy times out (or some other minor error occurs) and the
> client presents the SOA user prompt.  I would prefer that pca always
> trusts the proxy, and never waits on an interactive prompt.  Maybe I
> could set "user=dontask" on the clients?   Could this become the default
> when using a proxy?

Setting "user=dontask" on the client will fix that indeed. As you have a 
pca configuration file somewhere to set the proxy anyway, adding this 
extra setting should be no problem.

The problem with making "user=dontask" the default when "pcaurl" is set 
to a caching proxy is that then there's no way to trigger the current 
behaviour anymore. No idea whether anyone relies on that behaviour, but 
I've seen people rely on stranger things in the past :) Even if I agree 
that your scenario makes sense: the original idea was that pca should 
try *everything* to get a required patch, so when the proxy fails it 
tries to talk to SunSolve directly.

If you think that setting "user=dontask" is not an acceptable solution, 
please let me know, so we can further discuss this.

Martin.