[vlc-devel] [PATCH 08/10][RFC][WIP] cloudstorage: access: custom-made html pages to the http server responses (personalized for VLC)

[Diogo Silva]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>
wrote:

> In my opinion, this should be separate from vlc.git entirely. Those
> scripts are likely to churn way too fast for the VLC release cycle.
>
> Also IME, some services just refuse to work if accessed from localhost,
> whether file:// or http://. Not to mention the needs for confidential ID
> mess.
>
> I am still of the opinion that these should be web-hosted by the
> foundation or some other entity. This solves the churn problem, among
> others. Of course, it should still be open-sourced and there could be a
> setting to change the service provider.


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If those pages were simply success / error messages, they could be hosted
somewhere else than localhost.
In this case, I simply cannot web-host those scripts somewhere else than
localhost, otherwise, it will simply break the security (for AmazonS3,
OwnCloud and Mega.Nz).
It runs localhost in order to retrieve the credentials and create a proper
request that is sent to the respective servers.

I'm not sure I understood what you meant with "some services just refuse to
work if accessed from localhost", but any type of services did refuse and
it can be used to authenticate.

Thanks for the feedback!

Best Regards,
Diogo Silva
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