Axis should support libcurl's other auth types (not just basic)
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Key: AXIS2C-1370
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2C-1370
Project: Axis2-C
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: transport/http
Affects Versions: 1.6.0
Reporter: Aaron Oneal
Looking over axis2_libcurl_set_auth_options() I see it only allows basic auth.
if (auth_type &&
0 == axutil_strcmp(auth_type, AXIS2_HTTP_AUTH_TYPE_BASIC))
{
curl_easy_setopt(handler, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
}
else
{
/* Uses anonymous connection.*/
}
If new schemes can be enabled as easily as mapping Axis options to Libcurl,
this would appear to be an easy fix. Other supported values to be mapped
include:
CURLAUTH_BASIC
HTTP Basic authentication. This is the default choice, and the only method that
is in wide-spread use and supported virtually everywhere. This is sending the
user name and password over the network in plain text, easily captured by
others.
CURLAUTH_DIGEST
HTTP Digest authentication. Digest authentication is defined in RFC2617 and is
a more secure way to do authentication over public networks than the regular
old-fashioned Basic method.
CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE
HTTP GSS-Negotiate authentication. The GSS-Negotiate (also known as plain
"Negotiate") method was designed by Microsoft and is used in their web
applications. It is primarily meant as a support for Kerberos5 authentication
but may be also used along with another authentication methods. For more
information see IETF draft draft-brezak-spnego-http-04.txt.
You need to build libcurl with a suitable GSS-API library for this to work.
CURLAUTH_NTLM
HTTP NTLM authentication. A proprietary protocol invented and used by
Microsoft. It uses a challenge-response and hash concept similar to Digest, to
prevent the password from being eavesdropped.
You need to build libcurl with OpenSSL support for this option to work, or
build libcurl on Windows.
CURLAUTH_ANY
This is a convenience macro that sets all bits and thus makes libcurl pick any
it finds suitable. libcurl will automatically select the one it finds most
secure.
CURLAUTH_ANYSAFE
This is a convenience macro that sets all bits except Basic and thus makes
libcurl pick any it finds suitable. libcurl will automatically select the one
it finds most secure.
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