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Re: Is it safe to use ":" as proxy user/pwd when none required ?

From: Nicolás Ojeda Bär <n.oje.bar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 10:20:23 +0200

Thanks very much for the clarification!

Nicolás
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 11:43 PM Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2018, Nicolás Ojeda Bär wrote:
>
> > My question is: is it safe to always pass ":" as proxy user/password, even
> > in the case where no username/password is required? Do you see any issues
> > with doing this? Unfortunately, I am not able to test this in the actual
> > environment, which is why I am asking here.
>
> It certainly is if you also ask for "any" auth, since then libcurl won't add
> any auth header at all until the server asks for one. If you set explicit
> NTLM auth, I suspect that will cause you problems at times.
>
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