[osiris-devel] removing features

[Bill Perkins]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Brian Wotring wrote:

>
> I am seriously considering removing all of the http code from the management 
> console.  This includes md_http.h, md_http.c, as well as the relavent code to 
> handle the settings for http_host and http_port.
>
> The impact would be that it will not be possible to update the trusted 
> database via a web browser.  The suggested alternative is to turn on the 
> auto-accept feature.
>
> I have a couple of reasons for removing this.  First, it's problematic to 
> support.  Many people get hung up by firewalls, and email clients munging the 
> URL.  Second, it is a lot of code to handle the parsing of HTTP requests from 
> the management daemon itself.  The role of the management console is to 
> manage streams of agent data, not act as a web server.
>
> Please speak up if there any major objections to this?
>
> -brian
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turning on auto-accept would defeat the purpose of monitoring changes on 
the managed systems, would it not? I really wouldn't like for the changes 
to be blindly accepted before looking them over to ensure somebody didn't 
sneak something bad onto my systems. I use the web interface for 
convenience (my browser has a large window, but my email window is usually
quite small; the long lines are more readable in a large window). True, 
it's kind of silly to have a web server built in, but a plain web 
interface is useful.

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 		Bill Perkins
 		Voyager Technologies