From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 15:12:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] http: try http_proxy env var when http.proxy config option is not set
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205041710490.12158@tvnag.unkk.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20120504073913.GA22388@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, 4 May 2012, Jeff King wrote:

> The absolute simplest way for us would be to stop using
> CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME/PASSWORD to set it ahead of time, and instead
> provide a callback that curl would call on a 407. That callback would
> just need the URL of the proxy, and would return the username/password
> (or even just set them on the curl object via
> CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME/PASSWORD).
>
> For that matter, it would simplify our code to do the same for regular http 
> auth, too. And though we usually know our URL in that case, we might not if 
> we got a 302 with FOLLOWLOCATION set.

Thanks a lot. That is in fact almost exactly the solution we're discussing 
right now.

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