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Re: Patch to allow GSSAPI authentication to a socks5 server

From: Markus Moeller <huaraz_at_moeller.plus.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:10:44 -0000

"Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote in message
news:alpine.LRH.2.00.0901121952120.2812_at_yvahk3.pbagnpgbe.fr...
> 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
>

I think I fixed the points above.

Markus

Received on 2009-01-14