On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Arvind Sachdeva wrote:

> Why cant I retrieve the realm from 401 message using curl_easy_getinfo ? I
> cant think of any particular reason why this is not exposed to the
> Programmer.

I'll give you a particular reason: no one implemented it. I'm open for patches
that provide this.

> I cannot implement an efficient password caching mechanism in my app without
> knowing the realm ? Parsing the headers (from writeheaders function) is an
> ugly workaround, can anybody suggest something better ? What ugly
> sideeffects I can expect by using debug callbacks ?

Why is header callbacks uglier than relying on the debug callbacks? You know
the header format, you know the header callback will work. I don't call that
ugly, even if it introduces a little degree of HTTP-knowledge to your app that
libcurl otherwise makes an effort to hide.

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