Austin S. Hemmelgarn

Just my two-cents as a user: * I think versioning really should be more clearly visible. I'm not sure what the best way to do that is, but I suspect...

In general, I can see stuff like this falling into three categories: 1. Multiple mutually trusted users on a single system. 2. Multiple mutually untrusted users on a single system....

@calmh Any web based scripting language (Javascript, Silverlight, whatever else someone might use), as well as Adobe Flash, and Java can do it with almost no user intervention, and it's...

Flash itself can, it's a pretty much complete (albeit isolated) programming environment, though most browsers these days that support it though have it properly sandboxed. Silverlight I can't give any...

Should is not the same as must. You can't assume your users are using up-to-date software, or even well written software. I'm not saying you need to account for this,...

It's fully possible to have multiple user logins on a single seat on both Linux and Windows (not sure about OS X). User switching has been around since at least...

@xduugu That still provides only marginally better security. The REST API is the security issue here, not the GUI itself. Anybody with a decent understanding of the API can talk...

Also, just having the REST API does not make it more secure. I talk directly to it with wget on multiple systems I run syncthing on. Relying on the assumption...

@canton7 Then at least one of us is confused, because what I'm reading out of this except for one specific comment about using the 'same AJAX calls' is that he's...

@xduugu OK, since multiple people seem confused here, which of these is closest to what you're trying to explain? 1. GUI is served from a separate binary, which then proxies...