On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Josef Wolf wrote:

> But before I start asking questions about how git uses curl, I want to get
> some basic understanding, so I did some tests.

I think you should save questions about git's use of (lib)curl for the git
list. AFAIK, git uses only libcurl these days and that's the reason for
example ~/.curlrc doesn't matter since that's a curl feature, not a libcurl
one.

> Next problem is that curl don't ask credentials on a 401 error. Is this
> really the right thing to do? I always thought that on 401, the user-agent
> should present the realm, ask the user for credentials, and finally retry
> the request with the supplied credentials. At least, this is how I
> understand

We could discuss if curl the tool should do that (but that should be taken to
the curl-users list), but libcurl the library won't and can't.

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  / daniel.haxx.se