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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_version_info.311
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.34
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.314
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions2
4 files changed, 17 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_version_info.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_version_info.3
index e04376924..53f0495ad 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_version_info.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_version_info.3
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
.\" *
.\" **************************************************************************
.\"
-.TH curl_version_info 3 "18 Feb 2014" "libcurl 7.33.0" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_version_info 3 "2 Aug 2014" "libcurl 7.38.0" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_version_info - returns run-time libcurl version info
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -124,9 +124,14 @@ libcurl was built with support for IDNA, domain names with international
letters. (Added in 7.12.0)
.IP CURL_VERSION_SSPI
libcurl was built with support for SSPI. This is only available on Windows and
-makes libcurl use Windows-provided functions for NTLM authentication. It also
-allows libcurl to use the current user and the current user's password without
+makes libcurl use Windows-provided functions for NTLM, SPNEGO and SASL DIGEST-MD5
+authentication. It also allows libcurl to use the current user credentials without
the app having to pass them on. (Added in 7.13.2)
+.IP CURL_VERSION_GSSAPI
+libcurl was built with support for GSS-API. This makes libcurl use provided
+functions for Kerberos and SPNEGO authentication. It also allows libcurl
+to use the current user credentials without the app having to pass them on.
+(Added in 7.38.0)
.IP CURL_VERSION_CONV
libcurl was built with support for character conversions, as provided by the
CURLOPT_CONV_* callbacks. (Added in 7.15.4)
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3
index 018001d7e..17f4c3ff5 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
.\" *
.\" **************************************************************************
.\"
-.TH libcurl-tutorial 3 "4 Mar 2009" "libcurl" "libcurl programming"
+.TH libcurl-tutorial 3 "2 Aug 2014" "libcurl" "libcurl programming"
.SH NAME
libcurl-tutorial \- libcurl programming tutorial
.SH "Objective"
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ authentication method is called 'Basic', which is sending the name and
password in clear-text in the HTTP request, base64-encoded. This is insecure.
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
+Negotiate (SPNEGO). You can tell libcurl which one to use
with \fICURLOPT_HTTPAUTH(3)\fP as in:
curl_easy_setopt(easyhandle, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
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
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions b/docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions
index 5cbeff091..d4ba61ae1 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions
+++ b/docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ CURLAUTH_ANYSAFE 7.10.6
CURLAUTH_BASIC 7.10.6
CURLAUTH_DIGEST 7.10.6
CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE 7.19.3
-CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE 7.10.6
+CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE 7.10.6 7.38.0
CURLAUTH_NEGOTIATE 7.38.0
CURLAUTH_NONE 7.10.6
CURLAUTH_NTLM 7.10.6