[Spice-devel] connection-URL for spice

[Tiziano Müller]

Am Sonntag, den 26.12.2010, 20:52 +0100 schrieb Marc-André Lureau:
> Hi
> 
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tiziano Müller
> <tiziano.mueller at stepping-stone.ch> wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > What do you think about having a spice URL (scheme)?
> > The idea behind this is that we would like to register a protocol
> > handler in the browser (or in the OS) to automatically start the spice
> > client based on a certain URL.
> >
> > examples:
> >  spice://somehost:port/?password=sekrit&fullscreen=true
> >  spices://somehost:sport/?password=sekrit&fullscreen=true
> >
> 
> spice-gtk (and spicy) is using this scheme:
> 
> spice://host?port=123,tls-port=124
> 
> It make sense to specify the ports as arguments, rather than in the
> address part, since there is several connections which can use either
> the normal or the tls port.

Fine by me, but does it really make sense to give the client a choice
whether or not he wants to use an encrypted connection if he gets the
connection info to use one?


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