Re: Adding the cdebconf web frontend to alioth SVN repo

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 24 February 2008, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> > The stuff i'd like to upload consists in the web frontend itself, which
> > i plan to add to cdebconf/src/modules/frontends/web, and some cgi files
> > which could be added for now to cdebconf/test/web and later moved to a
> > dedicate udeb.
> > Can i proceed ?
>
> I don't think there's any real problem with committing the work as long as 
> it is not included in any builds by default.

Of course: i just want to make the code available to anyone so that 
others can start working on it.

> Please add a README explaining the status of the frontend and a TODO with 
> open issues.
> For the installer the main issue to be solved IIRC is authentication: how to 
> prevent that just anybody can connect to the installer without any kind of 
> authentication.

Luckily, such issue can be addressed outside the frontend itself, in the 
CGI scripts that sends to client the HTML page and forwards back the 
HTTP GET/POST requests to the frontend via unix pipes.

I hope i'll be able to do the commit this weekend.

> Cheers,
> FJP

Attilio