Daniel Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I had friends providing the test servers for both host and proxy
> authentication when I've worked on NTLM code.

It's a shame that those test servers are no longer available.  I don't
think it will be possible to finish the NTLM code without some sort of
test bed.

> o I had a buffer security problem in the NTLM code, but related to
>    base64 decode function and that is bound to be different when you
>    adapt the code to wget conditions anwyay.

I've seen notice of it and fixed allocation of BUFFER accordingly.

> o There was also another less alarming buffer problem with a
>    memset() of 8 bytes instead of 5. You may have of course already
>    have found and fixed this.

I've now changed this, thanks.

> o POSTing with NTLM auth is a pain, since NTLM is for connections and thus you
>    cannot close the connection without breaking the auth so thus you
>    are (more likely than with other multi-pass auth methods) forced
>    to send the full request body multiple times.

I guess there's no avoiding that.

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