perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

pS-UI should be attempting to fetch the data without authentication,  
and if the service requires authentication it should be responding  
with a message (response-code) that says authentication-required.  
(just like your web-browser ;) )

jeff
On Jun 27, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Andreas Hanemann wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In perfsonarUI there is a difficulty that the tool does not know  
> whether a service requires authentication or not. The current  
> implementation therefore asks for credentials even if those services  
> currently requested do not require authentication (and if the user  
> has ticked the use of authentication in general). An improvement to  
> the situation would be that services indicate on registration to the  
> LS whether they require authentication. I am not sure whether a  
> simple flag (authentication yes/no) would be a sufficient solution.
>
> Best regards
> Andreas
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