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RE: Design Change Proposal: Transparent Authentication Negotiation

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 20:14:23 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Aaron Oneal wrote:

Please don't top-post, it makes it very hard to follow the thread.

> Thanks, Daniel. I'm not aware of an easy way for the caller who doesn't have
> context of these other requests occurring to separate out the headers from
> the different responses, so I appreciate the consideration of an option to
> make this easier for apps to get at just the ones from the final response.

If you get a http status line you know it is the first line of a set of
response-headers. That should be pretty easy to detect.

> It would be great too if the docs could be updated to reflect that the
> current option returns headers from the multiple responses which occur
> during auth negotiation and not just the final response. I believe these
> changes would make it easier to use the library. Thanks.

Do you have any suggested changes/wording we could use? Would you look/expect
this info to be (better) documented in the CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION description?

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2009-06-06