From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp/url/url-https.el Date: 15 Apr 2004 09:42:22 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87fzb8cfxq.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> <4nvfk2whna.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vfk28bl0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082037305 8902 80.91.224.253 (15 Apr 2004 13:55:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 15 15:54:55 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BE7KQ-0007di-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:54:54 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BE7KQ-0004VQ-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:54:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BE7AA-0007Qh-Aw for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BE78u-0007Ju-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BE78O-0007Bl-9B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:42:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BE78O-0007Bh-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:42:28 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98CD21052; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:42:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 64B908B4C3; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:42:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-0.908, requis 5, BAYES_10 -0.91) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21687 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21687 > There is crypt++, but when it was discussed in the context of Gnus, I > think it was decided it was not really good enough, the programmatic > elisp API insufficient, and that we could never get copyright papers > for it anyway. I believe it was suggested to make a generic package > for this. This same problem does indeed occur in many situations. I > thought, but perhaps I have just been secretly wishing it, that Ted > was working on something like that. Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough: I was talking about writing a generic package (like crypt++) such that Gnus does not need to know about encryption at all (i.e. the package uses generic hooks so Gnus does not need to call it explicitly. At most Gnus would just need a way to specify a different file name than ~/.authinfo, which is probably already the case). Stefan