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Re: [RFC 0/3] imap-send curl tunnelling support

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 23, 2017, 21:43 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:34:19AM +0200, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
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> >> It appears curl do not support the PREAUTH tag.
> > Too bad. IMHO preauth is the main reason to use a tunnel in the first
> > place.
> 
> It shouldn't be too hard to add support for this in curl.
> If it's the main usecase, it'll simply means the curl tunnelling
> should be disabled by default for older curl (in this case, meaning
> every version until it gets supported) versions.

Yes, I agree. I was hoping when we started this discussion that we were more ready to switch to curl-by-default. But sadly, that isn't close to being the case. But hopefully we can at least end up with logic that lets us use it in the easy cases (no tunneling) and falls back in the harder ones.

-Peff
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Message 14 of 22 in “[RFC 0/3] imap-send curl tunnelling support”
  1. Nicolas Morey-ChaisemartinAug 9, 2017
  2. 1/3 imap-send: move tunnel setup to its own functionNicolas Morey-Chaisemartin, Aug 9, 2017
  3. 3/3 imap_send: add support for curl over tunnelNicolas Morey-Chaisemartin, Aug 9, 2017
  4. 2/3 imap-send: use a socketpair instead of pipe to communicate with the tunnelNicolas Morey-Chaisemartin, Aug 9, 2017
  5. Nicolas Morey-ChaisemartinAug 15, 2017
  6. Stefan BellerAug 15, 2017
  7. Johannes SchindelinAug 16, 2017
  8. Nicolas Morey-ChaisemartinAug 21, 2017
  9. Johannes SixtAug 22, 2017
  10. Nicolas Morey-ChaisemartinAug 22, 2017
  11. Johannes SchindelinAug 23, 2017
  12. Jeff KingAug 16, 2017
  13. Nicolas Morey-ChaisemartinAug 21, 2017
  14. Jeff KingAug 23, 2017
  15. Nicolas Morey-ChaisemartinAug 24, 2017
  16. Jeff KingAug 24, 2017
  17. Daniel StenbergAug 24, 2017
  18. Jeff KingAug 24, 2017
  19. Daniel StenbergAug 24, 2017
  20. Nicolas Morey-ChaisemartinAug 24, 2017
  21. Jeff KingAug 24, 2017
  22. Jeff KingAug 16, 2017

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