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-.TH CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH 3 "2 Aug 2014" "libcurl 7.38.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+.TH CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH 3 "19 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
.SH NAME
CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH \- set HTTP server authentication methods to try
.SH SYNOPSIS
networks than the regular old-fashioned Basic method. The IE flavor is simply
that libcurl will use a special "quirk" that IE is known to have used before
version 7 and that some servers require the client to use.
-.IP CURLAUTH_NEGOTIATE
-HTTP Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication. Negotiate authentication is defined
-in RFC 4559 and is the most secure way to perform authentication over HTTP.
+.IP 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 also be used along with other 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 or SSPI on Windows
-for this to work.
+You need to build libcurl with a suitable GSS-API library for this to work.
.IP 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