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Re: RE: [PATCH v2] Update docs for recent SPNEGO and GSS-API changes

From: Michael Osipov <1983-01-06_at_gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:45:32 +0200

> On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Michael Osipov wrote:
>
> > > > Two pages aren't available in Git so here are the manual changes
> > > > which have to be done:
> > > >
> > > > http://curl.haxx.se/docs/comparison-table.html:
> > > > http://curl.haxx.se/docs/libs.html:
> > >
> > > I've taken a stab at this and committed the changes on your behalf.
> > > Could you please take a look and see what you think?
> >
> > Changes look good. Though, I think that the split in libs.html has too much
> > duplicate text. Especially "...is used to for provide the Kerberos and
> > SPNEGO authentication in libcurl." and portions of the first part of the
> > sentence. It shouldn't make a change which implementation you choose
> > as long as it conforms to the RFCs.
>
> Yep sure - I wasn't 100% happy with the text but I thought I would change it and see what you thought.
>
> The table itself is a list of libraries we use, so having one row for both heimdal and MIT didn't work for me, but I also appreciate there is some duplication with what I have written :(
>
> Any suggestions, either textual or via a patch are much welcome ;-)

Do you insist on having both seperately? It seems to be awkward reading the same text twice?
Why don't you take my initial proposal and say instead of GSS-API in the first column
"GSS-API (Heimdal, MIT Kerberos)"? Is that better?

Michael
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