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@@ -23,11 +23,8 @@ For the future URLs mentioned in the list. I figure -O or something would have to be implied by such an action. - * Improve the regular progress meter with --continue is used. It should be - noticable when there's a resume going on. - * Add a command line option that allows the output file to get the same time - stamp as the remote file. We already are capable of fetching the remote + stamp as the remote file. libcurl already is capable of fetching the remote file's date. * Make the SSL layer option capable of using the Mozilla Security Services as @@ -58,13 +55,15 @@ For the future started in October 1999 but halted again since it proved more work than we thought. It is still a good idea to implement though. - * Authentication: NTLM. It would be cool to support that MS crap called NTLM + * Authentication: NTLM. It would be to support that MS crap called NTLM authentication. MS proxies and servers sometime require that. Since that protocol is a proprietary one, it involves reverse engineering and network sniffing. This should however be a library-based functionality. There are a few different efforts "out there" to make open source HTTP clients support this and it should be possible to take advantage of other people's hard - work. http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/ is one. + work. http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/ is one. There's a web page at + http://www.innovation.ch/java/ntlm.html that contains detailed reverse- + engineered info. * RFC2617 compliance, "Digest Access Authentication" A valid test page seem to exist at: |