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Re: Reproducible crash in Curl-7.21.7 (on windows)

From: Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:22:06 +0200

On 29 June 2011 12:28, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Christian Hägele wrote:
[...]
>> When the Http-Server responds with the following header:
>>
>> HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required
>>
>> It seems that this always happens when a server returns Http-code 407 for
>> some reason. In that case curl assumes that there is a proxy involved which
>> might be wrong.
>
> It is a fun server response though, as 407 is meant for proxies.

Perhaps the server is acting as a not-so-transparent proxy?

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
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