Re: [PATCH] http: add an "auto" mode for http.emptyauth

Hi, On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > The auto mode may incur an extra round-trip over setting > > http.emptyauth=true, because part of the emptyauth hack is to feed > > this blank password to curl even before we've made a single request. > >

Re: [PATCH] http: add an "auto" mode for http.emptyauth

Jeff King writes: > The auto mode may incur an extra round-trip over setting > http.emptyauth=true, because part of the emptyauth hack is > to feed this blank password to curl even before we've made a > single request. IOW, people who care about an extra round-trip have this

[PATCH] http: add an "auto" mode for http.emptyauth

This variable needs to be specified to make some types of non-basic authentication work, but ideally this would just work out of the box for everyone. However, simply setting it to "1" by default introduces an extra round-trip for cases where it _isn't_ useful. We end up sending a bogus empty