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RE: PUT with digest auth, sends HEAD #1054859

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:27:52 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, David Byron wrote:

> I tried testing both IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0 with the keep-alive box unchecked.
> I couldn't get the POST to work either time. IE eventually says "This page
> cannot be displayed" in both cases. Maybe it's my asp or html...Hopefully
> this is helpful.

The reason is quite obvious: now the server closes the connection before the
NTLM authentication is done.

I've been thinking about this topic a few days and I'm writing down my ideas
on how libcurl should behave. Stay tuned for a separate post with details.

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Received on 2004-11-08