perfsonar development work

[Nina Jeliazkova <>]

Jeff,

Jeff W. Boote написа:
> 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 ;) )
Yes, if AA is not switched on in psUI, it behaves just like this - 
returning an error code, and not retrieving data.

If AA is not to be switched on manually , as in the current 
implementation, what is the recommended workflow?

Regards,
Nina

> 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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> > Dr. Andreas Hanemann      DFN-Verein
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> > 10963 Berlin, Germany
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> >  anymore)

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