Re: Network disks and replacing qemu-block-curl|ssh with nbdkit

On 4/19/22 12:31 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 11:40:49AM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > > Well, As far as I can tell, there is no valid XML for exercising > > http auth. The schema for http(s) sources does not include any > > <auth> element [1]. And the schema for the <auth> element [2] > > requires a <secret> element with a required 'type' attribute, and > > the only choices for 'type' are 'ceph' or 'iscsi', neither of which > > apply to http authentication. > > > > So it looks to me like http auth was never supported, rather than a > > regression. It also seems that it would require some additional > > schema changes to support this. > > > > > > [1] https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/blob/136b821f183deb0b58c571211f69179... > > > > [2]https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/blob/136b821f183deb0b58c571211f691... > > As noted in my other reply, simple http auth is not practically very > useful for the kinds of sources we want to access, so if libvirt never > supported it I wouldn't bother adding that complexity now. As far as I can tell, we haven't ever supported it. But it is possible that I missed something in my digging, so if anybody has any recollection of http auth being supported in the past, please chime in.