On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, 1983-01-06_at_gmx.net wrote:

> I have finally managed to compile cURL 7.22 with Negotiate support but spent
> some stupid hours to figure out that I need to pass '-u :' as fake option.
> What is the reason behind this? This is quite confusing. Negotiate should
> work transparently without that fake switch.

KNOWN_BUGS #10:

10. To get HTTP Negotiate authentication to work fine, you need to provide a
   (fake) user name (this concerns both curl and the lib) because the code
   wrongly only considers authentication if there's a user name provided.
   http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1004841. How?
   http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-08/0182.html

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