Yngve Nysæter Pettersen

I'm a techie, not a nettie

Tuesday, 16. May 2006, 13:38:45

Hello all,

Welcome to my new homepage.

I am the lead developer on Opera's cache, network, and security code, such as HTTP, SSL/TLS encryption, cookies, privacy, and general URL handling.

I'll primarily use this page to post infrequent articles about Opera related subjects in the areas I work with.

One area of these posts will be about things we have shipped, at least in a TP-release, so don't expect any leaks about new features

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Another area will concern the more long range standardization efforts I'm participating in.

The small print: Opinions stated here are my own, and do not necessarily represent my employer's views. Opinions are subject to change without notice, in particular when I find (or am pointed to) better information, unless I decide to be stubborn. Articles may contain spelling mitsakes, errors grammatical, or other mistakes; in such cases the correct meaning is what I meant to write, not what is in the text; when in doubt, ask.

What's new in the SSL/TLS engine of Opera 9?

Comments

scipio # 26. May 2006, 16:41

I'm looking forward to your articles, yngve. Your posts in the forums are always very informative, so I expect the same from your future blog posts.

FataL # 8. June 2006, 15:30

Since your work is also "general URL handling" you are right person to ask.

Why not handle URL string without http://, ftp://, etc. (all known protocols) as default search?

So, if my default search engine is Google (or enything else) I can type in address field only this: "fastest browser"
If I want to search in Yahoo I type as it works now: "y fastest browser"

I get errors while searching couple times a day just because forgot to put "g" before string to search.
I'm shure that this improvement will be highly appreciate by many users.

yngve # 8. June 2006, 19:47

FataL, that is actually on the UI side: "What to do when the user enters something which is not a (valid) URL or does not resolve?".

The basic problem is: Would all uses want us to send anything they type in the address field to the default search engine? Personally I think not.

FataL # 17. October 2006, 15:00

Firefox 2 has feature that I suggested...

mabdul # 4. July 2008, 14:25

i don't now if you the right peron at opera for this requests, but:
when can we exspect new improvements with bittorent and the mail security? is there anything planing or in the new releases for the new snapshots/ opera 10/9.X?

yngve # 4. July 2008, 16:50

mabdul: Bittorrent: No idea. Mail: I have it on the wishlist.