Re: Deprecating URL passwords in cache_object://

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Yes; originally I only wanted to drop the @password convention, but
> people seemed to want to make other changes at the same time.
>
> It's difficult for it to support parameters now because @password mucks
> it up; @ is a reserved character, and it's not clear how to delimit the
> password from other arguments.

Well, we did all agree on the password dropping. The other things that
came up were all wishlist entries that have been in disagreement for a
long while.

Feel free to submit a patch for the password bit you need and ignore the
changes we can't agree on yet.

Amos

>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On 15/10/2008, at 8:21 PM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
>> On ons, 2008-10-15 at 12:04 +1100, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, my original use case was to allow passing arguments to cachemgr
>>> functions, so we can do things like:
>>
>> This is completely unrelated to changing the scheme. cache_object://
>> also theoretically supports parameters just as http://
>>
>> Regards
>> Henrik
>
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>

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