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| author | Michael Osipov <1983-01-06@gmx.net> | 2014-08-02 13:51:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Steve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com> | 2014-08-09 00:08:51 +0100 |
| commit | 37f0e8a32cf9ad0a87f8c60cfa12b65e61be15a9 (patch) | |
| tree | b23a0bfd6014d2409a41cc23ea4a6fd388fd20f3 /docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3 | |
| parent | b91e97eabd3a91b7362bc33aa4ef9d114b8aead1 (diff) | |
docs: Update SPNEGO and GSS-API related doc sections
Reflect recent changes in SPNEGO and GSS-API code in the docs.
Update them with appropriate namings and remove visible spots for
GSS-Negotiate.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3 index 3f0ab12ec..35d75aa50 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .\" -.TH CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH 3 "19 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" +.TH CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH 3 "2 Aug 2014" "libcurl 7.38.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH \- set HTTP server authentication methods to try .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -56,14 +56,12 @@ defined in RFC2617 and is a more secure way to do authentication over public networks than the regular old-fashioned Basic method. The IE flavor is simply that libcurl will use a special "quirk" that IE is known to have used before version 7 and that some servers require the client to use. -.IP CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE -HTTP GSS-Negotiate authentication. The GSS-Negotiate (also known as plain -\&"Negotiate") method was designed by Microsoft and is used in their web -applications. It is primarily meant as a support for Kerberos5 authentication -but may also be used along with other authentication methods. For more -information see IETF draft draft-brezak-spnego-http-04.txt. +.IP CURLAUTH_NEGOTIATE +HTTP Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication. Negotiate authentication is defined +in RFC 4559 and is the most secure way to perform authentication over HTTP. -You need to build libcurl with a suitable GSS-API library for this to work. +You need to build libcurl with a suitable GSS-API library or SSPI on Windows +for this to work. .IP CURLAUTH_NTLM HTTP NTLM authentication. A proprietary protocol invented and used by Microsoft. It uses a challenge-response and hash concept similar to Digest, to |