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Re: curl on cygwin: SSPI (--enable-sppi build option, I think)
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: David Knodel <dknodel at csc dot com dot au>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:08:19 -0700
- Subject: Re: curl on cygwin: SSPI (--enable-sppi build option, I think)
- References: <OF6C330DCB.F6E4BF05-ONC82572AB.0028BACF-C82572AB.002A025C@csc.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
David Knodel wrote:
> Please ignore this if you are the wrong person to send it to;
> I'll subsequently send it to the cygwin-apps group once I'm
> subscribed, if you don't reply.
> The last person's name I saw relating to updating curl for cygwin was
> yours, so I thought it would be quickest to ask you, rather than the
> mailing list.
> The cygwin curl is perfect for my needs, with the exception of the
> lack of the SSPI support (I think this is enabled via then
> "--enable-sspi" build directive).
> This allows us to run curl to our IIS (using NTLM) web servers that do
> domain-account authentication, without having to embed passwords into
> our script that call curl (because we can use the "-u :" option).
>
> Is this able to be included on builds of curl for cygwin, or is there
> some significant impediment to this?
Thanks for the feedback. I do maintain the curl packages for Cygwin,
although I do prefer to use the list (either cygwin@ or cygwin-apps@)
for all communications since others can benefit. I've cc'd this reply
to cygwin-apps.
I will try to enable SSPI next time I build the packages. It's been a
while, and an update is due. I have been putting this off because
7.16.x comes with a ABI version bump (libcurl3 -> libcurl4) which causes
a bit of calisthenics to get the packaging correct, but it's not a big
deal.
Brian