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| author | des <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-11 18:13:08 +0000 |
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| committer | des <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-11 18:13:08 +0000 |
| commit | ce80758a3f072152727fc8315fc11cc9c6b29073 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c0d3018b41834d7f2e30dde135e3d22dd8297ad | |
| parent | c42f438ce8bed0fa77f2d75197bedeb0d2e31ae4 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-ce80758a3f072152727fc8315fc11cc9c6b29073.zip FreeBSD-src-ce80758a3f072152727fc8315fc11cc9c6b29073.tar.gz | |
Document that basic authorization now kinda works.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libfetch/fetch.3 | 36 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 index 4b6af26..2c04c4a 100644 --- a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 +++ b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 @@ -379,12 +379,25 @@ Invalid URL The accompanying error message includes a protocol-specific error code and message, e.g. "File is not available (404 Not Found)" .Sh ENVIRONMENT -The FTP and HTTP related functions use the -.Ev HTTP_PROXY -and -.Ev FTP_PROXY -environment variables, respectively, as the address of a proxy server -to use for transferring files. +.Bl -tag -width HTTP_PROXY_AUTH +.It Ev FTP_PROXY +host name of the FTP proxy to use, optionally followed by a port +number separated from the host name by a colon. +.\" .It Ev HTTP_AUTH +.\" Specifies HTTP authorization parameters. +.It Ev HTTP_PROXY +host name of the HTTP proxy to use, optionally followed by a port +number separated from the host name by a colon. +If no port number is specified, the default is 3128. +.It Ev HTTP_PROXY_AUTH +Specifies authorization parameters for the HTTP proxy as a +colon-separated list. +The first and second item are the authorization scheme and realm +respectively; further items are scheme-dependent. +Currently, only basic authorization is supported. +Basic authorization requires two parameters: the user's login name and +password, in that order. +.El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr fetch 1 , .Xr ftpio 3 , @@ -454,18 +467,9 @@ environment variables as appropriate. There is also no way to stop the FTP and HTTP functions from trying to use a proxy if these variables are set. -.Pp -HTTP authentication doesn't work. -I'm not sure that's a bug in my -code; as far as I can determine, -.Nm libfetch -handles HTTP/1.1 basic authentication correctly as outlined in -RFC2068, but I haven't been able to find an HTTP server that honors -the Authentication: header field. -Also, .Nm libfetch does not attempt to interpret and respond to authentication requests -from the HTTP server. +from the HTTP server or proxy (code 401 and 407 respectively). .Pp No attempt is made to encode spaces etc. within URLs. Spaces in the |
