http auth types

disable EPRT
removed passwd prompting text
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Daniel Stenberg 2004-01-12 08:48:08 +00:00
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@ -226,8 +226,9 @@ Multi-threading issues
thread and set the CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL option to TRUE for all handles.
Everything will work fine except that timeouts are not honored during the DNS
lookup - this would require some sort of asynchronous DNS lookup (which is
planned for a future libcurl version).
lookup - which you can work around by building libcurl with ares-support.
Ares is a library that provides asynchronous name resolves. Unfortunately,
ares does not yet support IPv6.
For SIGPIPE info see the UNIX Socket FAQ at
http://www.unixguide.net/network/socketfaq/2.22.shtml
@ -300,6 +301,7 @@ Upload Data to a Remote Site
knowledge of the expected file size. So, set the upload file size using the
CURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE for all known file sizes like this[1]:
/* in this example, file_size must be an off_t variable */
curl_easy_setopt(easyhandle, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE, file_size);
When you call curl_easy_perform() this time, it'll perform all the necessary
@ -361,20 +363,44 @@ Passwords
without it. There are times when the password isn't optional, like when
you're using an SSL private key for secure transfers.
You can in this situation either pass a password to libcurl to use to unlock
the private key, or you can let libcurl prompt the user for it. If you prefer
to ask the user, then you can provide your own callback function that will be
called when libcurl wants the password. That way, you can control how the
question will appear to the user.
To pass the known private key password to libcurl:
curl_easy_setopt(easyhandle, CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD, "keypassword");
To make a password callback:
int enter_passwd(void *ourp, const char *prompt, char *buffer, int len);
curl_easy_setopt(easyhandle, CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION, enter_passwd);
HTTP Authentication
The previous chapter showed how to set user name and password for getting
URLs that require authentication. When using the HTTP protocol, there are
many different ways a client can provide those credentials to the server and
you can control what way libcurl will (attempt to) use. The default HTTP
authentication method is called 'Basic', which is sending the name and
password in clear-text in the HTTP request, base64-encoded. This is unsecure.
At the time of this writing libcurl can be built to use: Basic, Digest, NTLM,
Negotiate, GSS-Negotiate and SPNEGO. You can tell libcurl which one to use
with CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH as in:
curl_easy_setopt(easyhandle, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
And when you send authentication to a proxy, you can also set authentication
type the same way but instead with CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH:
curl_easy_setopt(easyhandle, CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH, CURLAUTH_NTLM);
Both these options allow you to set multiple types (by ORing them together),
to make libcurl pick the most secure one out of the types the server/proxy
claims to support. This method does however add a round-trip since libcurl
must first ask the server what it supports:
curl_easy_setopt(easyhandle, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH,
CURLAUTH_DIGEST|CURLAUTH_BASIC);
For convenience, you can use the 'CURLAUTH_ANY' define (instead of a list
with specific types) which allows libcurl to use whatever method it wants.
When asking for multiple types, libcurl will pick the available one it
considers "best" in its own internal order of preference.
HTTP POSTing
@ -976,6 +1002,10 @@ FTP Peculiarities We Need
or even a local network interface name that libcurl will get the IP address
from.
When doing the "PORT" approach, libcurl will attempt to use the EPRT and the
LPRT before trying PORT, as they work with more protocols. You can disable
this behavior by setting CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRT to FALSE.
Headers Equal Fun
@ -1092,7 +1122,6 @@ Footnotes:
Tranfer-Encoding in cases were HTTP uploads are done with data of an
unknown size.
[2] = This happens on Windows machines when libcurl is built and used as a
DLL. However, you can still do this on Windows if you link with a static
library.