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Re: Handle HTTP error 511 Network Authentication Required (standard secure proxy authentification/captive portal detection)

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 20, 2012, 19:09 UTC
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<20120220190939.GA29158@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<alpine.DEB.2.00.1202202002330.28090@tvnag.unkk.fr>
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
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> > 3. Open a browser and say "Ah, I see. A captive portal".
> >
> >We should already be doing that. Adding more support could make
> >step 3 a little nicer, but like I said, I'd be more interested in
> >seeing a real case first. It may even be a feature that would be
> >more appropriate to curl (which git builds on for http access).
> 
> We're already discussing the 511 in the curl camp as well, but with
> even more sighs and hands in the air. 511 is clearly intended for
> HTML-understanding user agents and curl is not one of those. IMHO,
> curl will remain to simply help users to figure out that it is 511
> and leave it at that.

Thanks for the input. It sounds like our best bet is to just report the URL from a 511 better, then. Do you have any idea yet how that information will be available to curl library users?

> As a git user, I would probably be very surprised if using 'git'
> suddenly caused by browser to pop up a captive portal login. I would
> prefer git to instead properly explain to me that is being the victim
> of a 511 and what I should do to fix it.

I agree. Even if the "step 3" in my list is "then the user starts a browser given the URL from git's error message", that is a huge improvement over the current state. And it retains the principle of least surprise.

-Peff
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  2. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
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  6. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
  7. Nicolas MailhotFeb 20, 2012
  8. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
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  11. Nicolas MailhotFeb 20, 2012
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