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Re: Authentication fallback to Basic from Negotiate

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 23:01:31 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, John Hodrien wrote:

> If a web server presents Negotiate and Basic auth, but the client's not in a
> position to do Negotiate (no ticket, or perhaps just no local kerberos
> configuration) even though curl is compiled with gssapi support, should it
> fall back to using basic or not?

I would like it to fallback to use basic, but I'm aware it doesn't. I don't
have any gss test infrastructure myself and there are not test cases for it,
so I'm not really a suitable person to work on a fix for this.

I've seen this problem reported before, but I've not seen anyone actually try
to fix it.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2013-05-02