Layers and layers

I am betting that Luakit will be more usable than Uzbl within a week. I am also betting that I will hear chirping about Luakit not integrating with the Monkeysphere, and though I agree that this is a problem, it seems to be difficult to solve.

To do it correctly, one would need hooks or callbacks in WebKitGTK+, which, in turn, would need support in LibSoup, which would probably then need support in GnuTLS.

Since apparently this will take years of bickering to accomplish, perhaps some sort of hack is called for. I suppose one could, for each HTTPS URL visited, make an OOB connection, download the certificate, and then run it through Monkeysphere validation, before then letting WebKitGTK+ make another connection and download (hopefully the same) certificate a second time.

This strikes me as ugly and problematic. Ideas?

Posted on 2010-08-13
Tags: quanks, webkit, libsoup, luakit, monkeysphere