Daniel Stenberg napsal(a): > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Michal Marek wrote: >> Maybe this is a squid bug, but I didn't find anything relevant in the >> RFCs. The question is: does it make sense for libcurl to insert the >> username:password into the url when doing ftp via a proxy? Attached is >> an incomplete patch doing this. > > Non-HTTP protocols over HTTP proxies is an area outside of all the specs > so it's not really possible to tell who's right or wrong here. Squid is > a widely used proxy so that should be reason enough for us to seriously > consider this.
OK. > The only thing I fear is that there's another proxy out there with the > reversed preference... You mean ignoring the user:password in the ftp url and requiring an Authorization: Basic header instead? Hopefully my patch should not make it worse :). Michal
