Re: [Librefm-discuss] Anomaly - The Libre.fm / GNU FM Chrome Extension

[Darryl G. Wright]

Looking for some opinions on this... any thoughts?

There are 2 solutions to this:

1) I modify the ext to be exclusively a "Libre.fm" scrobbler and
remove the ability to configure servers. Having tested it now, it
appears this is an issue. Even though its presently configurable it
will not reach other servers without predefined permissions.

2) Open it up to be able to access "all domains" essentially asking to
people accept the security risk. The only real risk is that they may
not trust the extension, which is fair enough. I could adopt a "try at
your own risk" policy. Just seems nasty somehow.

Option #1 isn't a big deal since I am releasing this source free
anyway. So if someone wanted to download and configure it for their
own server they could do it in minutes and re-release it as a seperate
extension. "Scrobbler for Server X".

Any thoughts?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Kuno Woudt <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On 09/02/12 19:43, Darryl G. Wright wrote:
>>
>> Ha - that is a very good point and one I hadn't even thought of. I may
>> have to simply install support for various servers. Are there any
>> servers other than Libre.fm right now? If not, it might be worth
>> simply defaulting it to Libre.fm for now and removing the ability to
>> configure it. Alternatively it is possible to simply open up the
>> permissions to "all websites" but some people may be uncomfortable
>> with that.
>>
>> Until there's more than one server - it would be easy to simply lock
>> it down to Libre.fm.
>
>
> Obviously there is more than one server.  Many people run their own
> copies of gnu fm, so the ability to configure it seems quite important.
>
> -- kuno / warp.
>