- From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:25:16 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-lib@w3.org
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Steinar Bang wrote:
> I've been looking at what libcurl does, in its Kerberos support. From the
> code http_negotiate.c source file, it looks like it uses something called
> SPNEGO to handle the binary chunks.
SPNEGO apparently means "Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism"
and is a Microsoft thing.
> I haven't yet figured out whether SPNEGO is an API, or just the name of a
> way of doing things.
I think it's a defined way to do the gss-api thing slightly differently.
> The modgssapache project[4], includes a library called fbopenssl, which has
> functions that matches the calls done from http_negotiate.c in libcurl.
libcurl relies on fbopenssl for SPNEGO support, yes, and on an external
library that provides a GSS-API (like Heimdal) for standard "GSS-Negotiation".
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