Not possible to supply a password when using the high level interfaces about sharpcompress

[sepehr1014]

Any plans on adding this functionality?

[ptallett]

Its fairly easy to hack this. I just put a static string in the lower level class and a set method in the high level API. Not something I’m proud of though, so I didn’t check it in! :)

Cheers,

Paul

From: Sepehr Mohammad [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 10:49
To: adamhathcock/sharpcompress
Cc: ptallett
Subject: Re: [sharpcompress] Not possible to supply a password when using the high level interfaces (#37)

Any plans on adding this functionality?

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[sepehr1014]

Thanks @ptallett but in our situation, we don't know if the files are password protected beforehand. There needs to be an event which is raised on password protected archives to get the password and continue extracting.

[ptallett]

Yes, that would be ideal, but you can workaround it by trying to open the ZIP file without a password, catching the exception, requesting a password, then retrying to open the ZIP file. Works a treat. You need to do something similar if the password is incorrect in any case.

The drawback with this approach is each file in a ZIP container can have a different password, but I just ignored that scenario as its rare.

Cheers,

Paul

From: Sepehr Mohammad [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 12:12
To: adamhathcock/sharpcompress
Cc: ptallett
Subject: Re: [sharpcompress] Not possible to supply a password when using the high level interfaces (#37)

Thanks @ptallett https://github.com/ptallett but in our situation, we don't know if the files are password protected beforehand. There needs to be an event which is raised on password protected archives to get the password and continue extracting.

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