[MPlayer-dev-eng] HTTP basic authentication support

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:54:16AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Monday 24 June 2002 04:14, Bertrand Baudet wrote:
> > [My] Comment was:
> > ---------
> > hmm, are you sure it's a good idea to read user and pass from mplayer's
> > stdin? I think it should rather only give the error message and then go to
> > next file/exit. A nice idea would be a -user xxx -pass yyy switch, so a
> > global user/pass for all following urls can be specified.
> > e.g: mplayer -user blah -pass blub http://xxx/1.mpg http://xxx/2.mpg
> > ---------
> >
> > Yes, I kindda agree with that! It's not a really nice integration
> > with the GUI neither.
> > But it would be also nice to have an interaction with the user
> > so it can specify a username/password for a protection space.
> > I should cache(in memory) the username/password for each
> > realm(protection space), so when the user is prompt once for
> > user/pass for a protection space, it will never be prompted again.
> > The cache will not be persistant.
> >
> > Any suggestion, anybody?
> I still think you should remove the interactive password reading in this way, 
> it simply doesn't fit mplayer's controlling-scheme. e.g. think off fullscreen 
> only vo, mplayer will hang, but user won't see why.
> The only reliable way I see, is to have a user/pass prompt via the osd, 
> because it would be displayable by every vo.
> 
> For now IMHO just leave this interaction out.

Agree.

Rich