> so we need some hooks into HttpClient. If you have any concrete API ideas,
> send them over.
I was thinking that there could be an optional argument to
NetcdfDataset.acquire() and its friends, allowing the client to
specify the HttpClient object to use. Or maybe the Credentials
object. Or maybe even a username/password, although this wouldn't
help for client-authenticated SSL.
Jon
2009/1/20 John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> Jon Blower wrote:
>>> so the remote site issues a challenge. do you just pass it on to your user
>>> at her web page, or have you cached her credentials?
>>
>> Currently I imagine that the credentials (which may be a Grid proxy
>> certificate, boo hiss) will be cached on the server. I was thinking
>> that the user would log on to my web app, thereby creating a session
>> object in which we can cache credentials.
>
>
> so we need some hooks into HttpClient. If you have any concrete API ideas,
> send them over.
>
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