On 06/14/2017 02:55 PM, marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The spice-controller was a small library to let NPAPI browser plugins > communicate with the spice client. Due to usage of vala, the library > could not promise ABI stability, and was also considerer a pretty > poor implementation. > > Furthermore, major browser vendors began to phase out NPAPI support in > 2013, and some would like to see it gone by the end of this > year (realistically, it may not happen though). > > As an alternative, remote-viewer (the first class Spice client) > learned to connect with a file of mime type application/x-virt-viewer, > as early as February 2013 with v0.5.5. > > RFC as we may want to have another release with the controller, and > announce it's the last one that will ship it - remote-viewer should > follow with a similar announcement. The spice controller also provides the ability for an application to securely pass a username and password in via the controller socket. The use of a file would have potential risk vectors. Is there an option to provide that facility? Cheers, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel