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Re: KIO quanta leap
by Dawit A. on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @23:35

Eric,

The user never has to enter user@ when typing any protocol with the exception of the crapy ftp protocol where anonymous logins are supported.

Please never ever encourage people to type password as part of the URL. Even as a work around. If a wrong password is remembered, then you should be prompted again to enter the correct one. If not, then there is a bug in that specific io-slave or the specific application. A bug report should be opened.

People should never have to log out of KDE to make a password expire. They only need to exit out of the specific app. This IMHO is much better than suggesting people enter the password as part of the URL. If I misunderstood the problem, please provide specific examples and I can either point to where and how you can solve the "caching problem" or fix bugs that exist there.

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Re: KIO quanta leap
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 16/Mar/2004, @00:20

Hi Dawit,
I will consider myself properly chastened. ;-)

I didn't know that only FTP required a password, but now that I never use it I guess I'm just in the habit of doing what I was used to. I know you should not have to log out, but it seems that if you are trying to do this in konqueror it has been a problem in the past. Maybe it's been fixed. I have had the problem where a wrong password was retained but it's been a long time. Of course I make sure to get the right password. This came up when someone posted to our list asking about it the other day.

If this should no longer be an issue with the current KDE I'll treat it as such and if I see this or confirm it with a user I will make sure a bug report is filed. Sorry for any incorrect info.

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