[osiris-devel] removing features

[Alexei_Roudnev]

This is one of MOST IMPORTANT features of osiris.

It means, that 50% of osiris functionality will be lost.

HTTPS code have a problems, it is true; may be, we should take some existing
_simple_ https server and use it's code. Anyway, it should not cause a
problems (support), because you can always state that it should work thru
local network only and require accurate dns naming.

In reality, http acces is the only good way to get reports and allow people
really confirm changes - we can not learn application engineer (who should
confirm changes in his servers) to use CLI system (such as 'osiris'
console). So, removing http makes osiris useless except if we use
'auto-approval' mode , which means lower level of attention to the changes
(it is good mode, but not for all cases).



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Wotring" <bwotring at cisco.com>
To: <osiris-devel at lists.shmoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:11 AM
Subject: [osiris-devel] removing features


>
> 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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