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Re: How to set service name for SPNEGO?

From: Wenlong Dong <wdong87_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:33:21 -0700

Linus, thanks a lot! The change to STRING_SERVICE_NAME part looks great. I
am looking forward to seeing this in.

Best regards,
Wenlong

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Linus Nielsen <linus_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On 04/06/2015 05:26 PM, Linus Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 04/04/2015 12:51 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks! I'm fine with the change and as there's at least one user saying
>>> it looks fine I'm happy. I have no way of testing this myself. The
>>> changes seems totally benign to me.
>>>
>>
>> One thing worries me a little, the CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME option.
>> The default is "rcmd", since it was a socks5-only option. If I use this
>> option for the Kerberos/SPNEGO/Digest proxy negotiation, the default
>> name will be incorrect.
>>
>> We can probably fix this in the curl tool, but libcurl applications will
>> stop working unless they set CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME to "HTTP" when
>> connecting to a Kerberos/SPNEGO/Digest proxy.
>>
>> The current patch does not use CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME for
>> Kerberos/SPNEGO/Digest proxies (hardcoded to "HTTP"), but that seems
>> wrong as well. The whole point of replacing
>> CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE was to have one option for all mechanisms,
>> but that will break one or the other.
>>
>> Perhaps I should take a step back and keep the
>> CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE option as-is, and add the
>> CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME for all other mechanisms.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Linus
>>
>>
> In lack of feedback, I decided to take that backwards step and not
> deprecate CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE. Here is a new patch.
>
> Linus
>
>
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