On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:41:58AM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:19:27PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > I wonder if a auth type (Basic, Digest, NTLM etc) would
> > be wanted as well.
>
> What would this be used for?

Determining whether this form of authentication is desired (e.g. to disable
unencrypted Basic), or maybe to delegate an authentication server to handle
some forms.

> Yes, but providing user+passwd in advance is only possible if the
> application knows that the remote side will ask for it.

If the other end wants it, just ask the user and redo the request with
the credentials!

> Huh? So libcurl already tries to repeat the request with different
> credentials? This sounds like I have missed something important in
> the documentation? Can you please drop some hints about how 401/407
> is handled right now?

Take a look at curl's --anyauth option.

>>> Dan

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