[icedtea-web][rfc] (Small patch) Fix for PR1102. When using javaws -headless, auto-deny all security decisions that would pop up

Adam Domurad adomurad at redhat.com
Thu Aug 2 06:40:39 PDT 2012


On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 18:03 -0400, Omair Majid wrote:
> On 08/01/2012 05:00 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
> > Hey all. -headless is a rather nice option for ITW's reproducer system
> 
> -headless is not just meant for tests. It is meant primarily for users.
> While it doesn't do what it says (gui security dialogs are shown after
> all), it still tries its best to let the users run application.
> 
> > it allows for automated tests to not constantly show
> > confirm/deny popups. 
> 
> Is this true? That sounds like a bug. How do I reproduce this?
> 
> Or are you thinking of how -Xtrustall answers "OK" to all dialogs before
> they are shown?
> 
> > This makes sure some security dialogs that were still being seen with
> > -headless do not pop up. (NB: The effect will be the same as if they
> > were denied.)
> 
> I don't think it's okay to deny permissions in headless mode.  The right
> behaviour for -headless would be to prompt the user (just like we do
> with the gui) but on the terminal.
> 
> It would be nice to have an opposite of -Xtrustall for the tests, but it
> shouldn't obstruct normal user functionality. Please make it a separate
> option (-Xtrustnone maybe?)
> 
> Cheers,
> Omair

Right, I'm mistaking the intent of -headless here.
I shall create an -Xtrustnone option for testing purposes, then. 
That was more in line with what I hoped to achieve.

Thanks,
Adam




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