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Re: [Dillo-dev]dpip dialog for https (and dpis in general)
by Jorge Arellano Cid July 21, 2004

July 21, 2004

Garret, Brian, CC: anyone interested ;) On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Brian Hechinger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:31:12PM -0400, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote: >> >> I'll test and upload tomorrow. > > let us know, i'd love to test it. i just setup a new machine, and the latest > dillo in NetBSD's packages collection is 0.8.1, so i'm ready to upgrade > anyway. ;) The changes are now in the CVS. Example code can be find in the hello dpi (and also in nav.c). For instance, after upgrading the dpi binaries, launch Dillo and load this url "dpi:/hello/world". It will pop up a dialog, make a choice and look at the answer. repeat the test by going Back and Forward (the hello dpi is set to always reload). The relevant code is well commented. Look inside the hello dpi and you can also review the new dpiapi.[ch] files. Nav.c has an example of use for a_Interface_question_dialog() too. This should be enough for asking the user about certificates that can't be authenticated. Note that the code is not final, i.e. it needs some polishing and extensions. The good news is that in clearly illustrates the process and now is much easier to do it so. even the data structures and interface was thought to be extensible. Cheers Jorge.- Brian: unless you're interested in dpi development, or want to alpha test the https dpi, I'd recommend 0.8.2 as an upgrade.

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[Dillo-dev]https patch
by Garrett Kajmowicz July 19, 2004

July 19, 2004

This patch allows the https dpi to release the memory used by the X509 certificate. This is a trivial patch. The call used to check the certificate increases a reference count, but it is never decreased, causing the memory not to be freed at the optimum time. This is not actually needed on a Linux system because of the MMU, but in the event this is converted to a server or run on a MMU-less processor, this could cause problems - I'm not familiar enough with the internals of OpenSSL to be certain. Anyways, please apply the following patch to CVS. btw, my configuration script diff seems not to have been applied yet. Are there any standards that I should be complying with that I am not? Thanks. More stuff to follow tonight. - Garrett

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Re: [Dillo-dev]Cookie problem
by Brian Hechinger July 18, 2004

July 18, 2004

i told him about cookiesrc, he's going to try that. but that brings me to a cookie issue of my own. i have: ebay.com ACCEPT in my cookiesrc, but ebay keeps telling me that my browser is rejecting cookies. am i doing something silly? -brian On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 12:38:31PM +0200, Claus Conrad wrote: > Dear dillo community, > > I have subscribed to this list because I'm developing a PHP-based website > which I want to be compatible with dillo. The site is located at > http://www.kabbeleje.dk/vask/ . It uses PHP's session management, sending a > cookie named PHPSESSID to the browser on login. This works great in most > other browsers I tried, but somehow not in dillo. > > The PHP code I'm using looks something like > if (login_successful) { > session_start(); > // ... > header("Location: http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . > dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . "/index.php?PHPSESSID" . > strip_tags(session_id())); > } > > I added the get parameter to the redirect URL after trying without; both > ways seem to work in e. g. Mozilla, but it doesn't change anything in dillo. > The redirect works, but the user isn't logged in. I guess it's just a minor > erroneous piece in the code, but don't know where to look. Any help would be > very much appreciated. A test login is available on request, if necessary. > Thanks a lot in advance. > > Regards, > Claus > > _______________________________________________ > Dillo-dev mailing list > Dillo-dev(a)lists.auriga.wearlab.de > http://lists.auriga.wearlab.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dillo-dev -- "Suits, man. They are as incapable of logical thought as they are of honesty." -- Dave McGuire --

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[Dillo-dev]Configure script patch
by Garrett Kajmowicz July 16, 2004

July 16, 2004

This patch updates the configuration system to chack for OpenSSL libraries, and compile appropriately. I have tested to make sure that the system work with both ssl enabled and disabled, though I do not know how well it will react to not have OpenSSL present at all. Along wwith those changes go changes to the https.c file to take advantage of this newly available information. In the event that it is compiled without ssl support, an error page will come back indicating that the dpi was compiled without ssl support, and link to the openssl website. btw, is there any easy command which will delete all of the non CVS files? make distclean seems to keep the configure script around, along with other cache information. - Garrett Kajmowicz

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[Dillo-dev]dpip dialog for https (and dpis in general)
by Jorge Arellano Cid July 16, 2004

July 16, 2004

Hi there, In the afternoon I had a prototype working, wich BTW was very pleasing to see working, after living a long time as an abstract design. It needed some touches, and while working on them, some hidden bugs outside its scope showed in nav.c's repost dialog. Short story, I decided to integrate some code in interface.c with the new dialog renderer, use a more flexible design and fix the bugs. I'll test and upload tomorrow. Cheers Jorge.-

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[Dillo-dev]Re: HTTPS
by Jorge Arellano Cid July 14, 2004

July 14, 2004

Hi Garret, I just finished uploading my patches to the dpis (those that were independent from your code but that required a merge) and the tarball tree you sent me. It comes with some minor modifications ... > Let me know what you think of the coding style, etc. Very clean and compliant with our Naming&Coding in general. I did minor changes, like keeping it inside 80 columns and switching "if(" to "if (" (not a requirement but just to be consistent with the rest of Dillo). Only in one function I needed to reindent to 3 spaces... Unto less trivial stuff, Makefile.am was modified so dpiutil.h gets in the tarball produced with `make dist`. It would be great if you can add some SSL library detection routine to configure.in so https.c uses the no_ssl_support() function when the libarry is not present (or detected). > Also, if you could give me some direction on how to implement the prompt for > unverified certificates (and the code/location to save them to), it would be > greatly appreciated. I'm working on this. Maybe tomorrow... For those that feel curious, you can get the latest CVS and test the new dpis. Just remember to install them after typing make! :-) More seriously, kill dpid and any running dpi before: 'make install' (or 'make install-strip'). Best Jorge.- PS: great start for 0.8.3-pre!

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[Dillo-dev]Plugin infrastructure
by Garrett Kajmowicz July 14, 2004

July 14, 2004

Something with the DPI instrastructure needs to be considered - what to do if a plugin needs to prompt the user for some information. The need for this first came about while developping the https plugin - there needs to be a way to prompt the user in the event that the foreign system isn't trusted. This can currently be done through the use of direct calls to Gtk (I assume), but this is not the best result. It requires that everybody who needs to do user prompting write their own dialogs. It creates additional dependancies for the dpis. And it makes code upgrades more difficult - Should Dillo switch to another toolkit in the future for whatever reason (perhaps Gtk2?), all of the DPIs need to be rewritten. And in the event of multiple instances of Dillo running, it becomes impossible to determine which instance the prompt is for. My proposed solution to this problem is to create a new dpi command which is used to prompt the user for what to do. It should allow (require/default?) modal dialog boxes so that the prompt is associated with the Dillo instance the plugin is using. I am suggesting that the dpi command be 'prompt_user'. There would be one manditory field, 'type' which would indicate the type of prompt to use. Example values might be 'dialog' or 'file_save'. These types would be extensible. From there, additional tags would be allocated based on the type of prompt. For example, a 'file_save' prompt might have a default_filename tag. A 'dialog' would likely have a title, a message, and up to 3 button texts. In all cases, the responce should be a dpi message of type 'user_response' with a 'response' tag holding the value of the user input. At least this is my proposal. I'd like some feedback on it, and especially suggestions or better ideas. - Garrett Kajmowicz

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Fwd: Re: [Dillo-dev]Plugin infrastructure
by Garrett Kajmowicz July 13, 2004

July 13, 2004

> In the discussions before introduction of dpi was the point UI could > entierely be done using standart html, rendered by dillo itself. > > Maybe we could use this here. > > I would see two (new) dpi commands: > -Pop a new dillo window (maybe with some args: modal, no toolbar, no > addressbar..., set its size, url) > -Make a window reload > > So dpi could make a window pop for asking anything about certificates, > with a standart html form in it. It would allow to change window title > (through <title>) and make the gui customisable for future needs, and > even be portable for gtk->other toolkit change. > > I thought of the 'reload window' feature not directly for https, but for > download dpi. This would allow us to update the status of current > downloads; shown in a dedicated window, somewhat ala Firefox, but again, > entierely in html. That is very interesting, but causes two problems. First of all, from what I have seen , it looks like it would be difficult to implement modal dialog boxes. This is important for security warnings so that they are not hidden or confused with other Dillo warnings. Secondly, this approach causes some problems. I am approaching this from the perspective of the https filter dpi, but I assume that the same problem would apply to any other related dpi. Firstly, a filter dpi runs in its own process for each call, not as a server. Thus every time a call is made to the https filter dpi, it runs in its entirety. This makes it difficult to handle a response from the user because the dpi is then required to write a web server capable of at the very least parsing http GET requests, which means opening up a socket and so forth. Needless to say, handling that is somewhat of a challenge from a filter dpi perspective. Secondly, for the https application, cookie/post/get datais likely to be sent, which means that any rerequest would have to be able to pass that data on exactly. Third, the https verification needs to be done after the ssl session is estabilshed, but before the http request is made (for security reasons). Thus any complicated scheme could result in multiple connections being made. Fourthly, I don't like it. That's the most important one of all :-) The html prompt window isn't a bad idea, but causes a lot of coding headaches on the dpi other end. But that's just my thought. If you think that an html prompt window would work, I'd appreciate a modified "hello" filter dpi as an example from which I could implement the required code. Thanks for the feedback - Garrett Kajmowicz -------------------------------------------------------

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[Dillo-dev]0.8.2 - No PNG support, but config cound PNG available (attachment)
by Geek July 13, 2004

July 13, 2004

Hi, I just compiled and installed 0.8.2 on my Debian stable and gave it a shakedown. It doesn't display PNG images. 0.8.1 and earlier, no problems. I have attached the config.log file Thanks for any assistance. -- Gregg t3h g33k http://geek.scorpiorising.ca

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RE: [Dillo-dev]Plugin infrastructure
by Eric Gaudet July 12, 2004

July 12, 2004

Dillo's html rendering capabilities are what we should use for advanced forms. We don't want to duplicate the form widgets into a native-gtk version like mozilla does with xul. The pageflow, the forms, images etc ought to be in html, even if it's a dpi serving them. Having a login/password modal box seems to be what people are used to, so I can see why we'd like to have that. I can imagine dpis other than https needing a login/password box, but I'm not sure I can imagine that for non-login purposes. In any case, anything more complicated than one string, one or two text boxes with lables (possibly hidden for passwords) and 1 or 2 buttons certainly belongs to a dedicated html page the dpi would build. I could live with an intermediate html login page for https or any other dpi myself. Best, EG > -----Original Message----- > From: dillo-dev-admin(a)auriga.wearlab.de > [mailto:dillo-dev-admin@auriga.wearlab.de] On Behalf Of > Garrett Kajmowicz > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 3:26 PM > To: dillo-dev(a)auriga.wearlab.de > Subject: Re: [Dillo-dev]Plugin infrastructure > > > I just came up with two other dialog box types we might need: > > A window with alterable caption/message text and either one > or two text boxes > with associated labels. One or both of the boxes should be > able to be set in > "password" mode. > > I'm not sure if that counts as one or two, so I'm inflating > my estimates to > look more impressive :-) > > - Garrett Kajmowicz > > _______________________________________________ > Dillo-dev mailing list > Dillo-dev(a)lists.auriga.wearlab.de > http://lists.auriga.wearlab.de/cgi-> bin/mailman/listinfo/dillo-dev > >

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