From 37f0e8a32cf9ad0a87f8c60cfa12b65e61be15a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Osipov <1983-01-06@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 13:51:18 +0100 Subject: 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. --- docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3 | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3