[RFC] netx/plugin: do not prompt user multiple times for the same Certificate

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 12:53 Mon 18 Oct     , Omair Majid wrote:
> On 10/14/2010 05:03 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> > * Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>  [2010-10-14 16:37]:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In the current implementation of the plugin, when the user rejects a
> >> https certificate, the next time the https connection is attempted,
> >> another certificate warning is shown.
> >>
> >> The attached patch makes it so that if the user does not accept a
> >> certificate, he is not prompted again for accepting it. The patch
> >> keeps a list of certificates that the user has not accepted and
> >> skips the user prompt if it is for one of those certificates.
> >>
> >> Any comments or suggestions?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Looks fine to me. Okay for commit to all active branches.
> >
> 
> Thanks. Pushed to IcedTea6 HEAD, 1.9, 1.8 and 1.7.
> 
> Cheers,
> Omair
> 

Can the user remove the certificate from the list, should they wish to accept it at some point in the future?
Same vice versa I guess (stop accepting a previously accepted certificate).
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Andrew :)

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