Re: auth-sources and EWW

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 18:19, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>>> On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 07:20:24 -0700, "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
> said:
>
>     TVR> That's the problem, witness this cae:
>
>     TVR> The name of the option is far removed from the place where the
> symptom
>     TVR> manifests itself, you'd never make the connection unless you were
> very
>     TVR> close to the code.
>
> ??? "When I use the network, this undesirable thing happens. Do I have any
> customizations with the word 'network' in them?" ->
> 'network-stream-use-client-certificates'
>
> I donʼt think the evidence supports your argument in this case.
>
> I disagree. It wasn't as if Raman was getting a network error. He observed
that auth-sources was being consulted whenever he visited an https URL. If
I had noticed that behaviour, I would have looked for EWW settings and
possibly auth-source ones and may have eventually got to the point of
checking network options, but that would not have been the first place.

However, perhaps the key point to note here is that this was the user
experience of an Emacs user who has extensive Elisp knowledge and has been
using Emacs for around 30 years. What is the user experience for a new user
or a far less experienced user?


-- 
regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross

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