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using anyauth isn't unconditionally an extra roundtrip

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Daniel Stenberg 2008-01-25 22:35:06 +00:00
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@ -115,10 +115,10 @@ used.
.IP "--anyauth"
(HTTP) Tells curl to figure out authentication method by itself, and use the
most secure one the remote site claims it supports. This is done by first
doing a request and checking the response-headers, thus inducing an extra
network round-trip. This is used instead of setting a specific authentication
method, which you can do with \fI--basic\fP, \fI--digest\fP, \fI--ntlm\fP, and
\fI--negotiate\fP.
doing a request and checking the response-headers, thus possibly inducing an
extra network round-trip. This is used instead of setting a specific
authentication method, which you can do with \fI--basic\fP, \fI--digest\fP,
\fI--ntlm\fP, and \fI--negotiate\fP.
Note that using --anyauth is not recommended if you do uploads from stdin,
since it may require data to be sent twice and then the client must be able to
@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ a redirection. This option is meaningful only when using \fI-L/--location\fP
(Added in 7.17.1)
.IP "--proxy-anyauth"
Tells curl to pick a suitable authentication method when communicating with
the given proxy. This will cause an extra request/response round-trip. (Added
the given proxy. This might cause an extra request/response round-trip. (Added
in 7.13.2)
If this option is used twice, the second will again disable the proxy use-any