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Re: Re: problem with http basic authentication and multiple redirects
From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:52:06 -0800
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:52:06 -0800
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:36:49PM -0800, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:12:39PM +0100, Menner May wrote:
> > There's still a problem: curl sends the basic authentication header
> > again and again
> > on all subsequent redirected GETs. Firefox doesn't do that.
>
> I don't think it should be doing that unless you are using the
> --location-trusted option. Sounds like a bug.
Test case 233 in the test suite checks this and curl doesn't send the
authorization header on the redirect. I also tried it manually with
--anyauth and it still doesn't. Under exactly what conditions are you
finding this happens?
>>> Dan
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