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Re: curl mutually exclusive --ntlm and --negotiate option
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:27:36 +0200 (CEST)
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, jicea via curl-users wrote:
> I've a simple questions regarding --ntlm and --negotiate option. In the
> manual for ntlm, it is written that "--ntlm requires that libcurl is built
> to support TLS. This option is mutually exclusive with --basic,
> --negotiate, --digest and --anyauth. See also --proxy-ntlm."
That is wrong. Those options are not mutually exclusive, they actually
enable/disable those specific authentication methods.
I'm fixing that mistake here: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18059
> - Are --ntlm and --negotiate exclusive? if yes, what's the choosen one if
> both options are provided?
Using --ntlm and --negotiate means either of those authentication methods are
fine to use.
> - mutual exclusive options like negotiate and ntlm seems to be accepted
Yeah, the docs is wrong, sorry!
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:27:36 +0200 (CEST)
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, jicea via curl-users wrote:
> I've a simple questions regarding --ntlm and --negotiate option. In the
> manual for ntlm, it is written that "--ntlm requires that libcurl is built
> to support TLS. This option is mutually exclusive with --basic,
> --negotiate, --digest and --anyauth. See also --proxy-ntlm."
That is wrong. Those options are not mutually exclusive, they actually
enable/disable those specific authentication methods.
I'm fixing that mistake here: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18059
> - Are --ntlm and --negotiate exclusive? if yes, what's the choosen one if
> both options are provided?
Using --ntlm and --negotiate means either of those authentication methods are
fine to use.
> - mutual exclusive options like negotiate and ntlm seems to be accepted
Yeah, the docs is wrong, sorry!
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