On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Lance Munslow wrote:

> What about retrieving the realm.

Hm, well that would be a slightly bigger addition. Also, there can be multile
WWW/Proxy-Authenticate: headers each with their own possible set of data an
application could possibly want...

> I've "cheated" by setting the debug call-back function switching on the info
> type (i.e. CURLINFO_HEADER_IN) and parsing for the realm.

It isn't really cheating, as it follows the defined and documented behaviour.
However, I would use a header callback if I were to use it.

> I realise I could get the proxy status this way, also. But it's untidy and
> could affect performance - but not in my current program.

I think parsing the realm is best left for your app to on its own.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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