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Re: can persistent auth be disabled?

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:58:41 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020, Whitney Jackson via curl-library wrote:

> Is there a way to force persistent authentication to be off? To put it
> another way, if I add this line:
>
> neg_ctx->noauthpersist = true;

I find no such code path in the code and I know too little about Negotiate to
even understand what it means.

> I'm using the multi interface with CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH set to CURLAUTH_ANY. My
> program starts a bunch of requests all at once against a server that doesn't
> support persistent auth so it challenges each request SPNEGO style.
> Unfortunately curl seems to assume persistent auth.

This begs the question: how is curl supposed to figure this out rather than to
presume?

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