Re: Getting good bug reports

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Getting good bug reports"):
>> Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>> > The reason why there is a problem with an http submission interface is
>> > that suddenly every idiot will think "oh I must write a cool ui for
>> > this".
>> 
>> But with the tunneling suggested below the cool UI would have to talk
>> smtp as well as http to setup the connection. So actualy doing this via
>> http would be even harder than with plain smtp. So your argument doesn't
>> hold.
>
> Oh I see.  I'm not sure that implementing a complicated layered thing
> like that.  How would you do sessions, anyway, or would you present
> the whole SMTP session in a single transaction?
>
> I don't think we should be implementing a perverse protocol out of
> fear of a sociopolitical problem unless we don't have another way of
> addressing the sociopolitical problem.

Luckily http already defines that for use in the CONNECT method. This is
usualy used by HTTPS over a HTTP proxy. But it should just as well work
for SMTP over HTTP.

MfG
        Goswin