Re: gssapi authentication for nnimap

[Jochen Hein <jochen@jochen.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Jochen Hein <jochen@jochen.org> writes:
>
>> That seems to be the way forward, yes.  I guess that the wrapper willl
>> look a lot like open-protocol-stream...  I'll have a try in the next few
>> days.
>
> An idea just occurred to me...
...
> We could extend this to `function', and that function would then deliver
> the socket top `open-network-stream'.  It'd be exactly like `shell', but
> instead of calling the shell, we'd call the function.
>
> The function in this case would be a slight variation over
> open-gssapi-stream.
>
> Or rather, it would kinda look like this:
>
> (open-network-stream NAME BUFFER HOST SERVICE
>   ... :type 'function
>   :connection-function (lambda (name buffer host service parameters)
>                          (open-gssapi-stream name buffer server port nnimap-user)))
>
> Wouldn't that do the trick with the minimal amount of hacking?  If so, I
> can add the :type 'function to open-network-stream on the Emacs trunk...

I'm not sure.  Right now open-gssapi-stream kills the greeting with
erase-buffer.  We need to scrapt greeting first, if needed.  Or
something like that.  I think I'll have to explore some different paths
to see what might be the best way forward.

Jochen

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