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Re: Patch to allow GSSAPI authentication to a socks5 server

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:18:17 +0100 (CET)

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Markus Moeller wrote:

> Please find attached a patch to curl 7.19.2 which adds Socks5 GSSAPI
> authentication. It works on Unix and Windows.

Thanks a lot! Here follows my comments on it:

- FYI: it won't be included in 7.19.3 since we're in a feature freeze right
   now

- don't you think the two options CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE and
   CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC are better added as a 'proxytype' ? You can't
   combine them with the other socks variations anyway, can you? And that's how
   we currently select between SOCKS 4, 5, 4A and 5-hostname... Or will socks5
   and socks5-hostname both still work with these?

- it uses #if [define] and #elif [define] on several places where it
   should do #ifdef [define] and #elif defined([define]) to be clean

- it uses code wider than 80 columns at a few places

- library-internal globals should be prefixed Curl_, like blockread_all when
   converted from being a static should probably be renamed to
   Curl_blockread_all() or similar.

- there's no docs added for the new options, in neither libcurl nor curl

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2009-01-12