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Re: proxyauthwant = NTLM | BASIC

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:18:38 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Joerg Mueller-Tolk wrote:

> Currently, as far as I am aware of, if you specify more NTLM and BASIC for
> wanted authorization methods, you will allways fail to pass the proxy.

That's a bug.

> I did not step through the code, wheather any credentials are transmittet or
> not.

They are not transmitted until libcurl has sorted out which method to use, and
then it sends them according to that method.

> Would it be promising in this case to transmit the credentials for both
> methods?

No. That would defeat a lot of stuff. For example, Basic is sending the name
and password as plaintext, while the other authentications don't.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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Received on 2003-09-11