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Date:      Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:25:06 +0100
From:      roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: text, menu/dialog/windowing, library, ideas?
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19961202192506.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199612021420.IAA18698@bonkers.taronga.com>; from Peter da Silva on Dec 2, 1996 08:20:34 -0600
References:  <199612020255.NAA02673@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199612021420.IAA18698@bonkers.taronga.com>

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According to Peter da Silva:
> Every time someone does an HTML interface, they then go and look at "now how
> do we do authentication over HTTP so I can use this for system administration
> without giving crackers a user-friendly doorkey?". Remember the hole in
> SATAN/SANTA 1.0?

HTTP 1.1 does support authentication although the available methods are
pretty basic. Net$crap is 1.1-compliant in this respect and I think it is
the only browser that support it.

> The only question comes... is there an X-based browser that's sufficiently
> good, easily enough expanded to grok the lynx tags, and the source is
> available without Motif? Well... there's Arena...

Arena has been superceded by another browser (I can't remember the name).
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
  FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #29: Sun Nov 24 16:05:46 MET 1996



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