Re: problem with SoupContexts

Hi,

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 15:08, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Soup caches authentication information so it can be sent without having
> to make an extra round trip.  It looks like it only does it on a
> per-path basis, though, and doesn't take into account the username and
> password.  I presume you're using Basic authentication?  It's probably
> just as simple as changing soup_auth_lookup(), soup_auth_invalidate(),
> and soup_auth_set_context() to do path + username + password instead of
> just path.

I hesitate to take a patch like this, since I think the current behavior
is correct... also netscape and mozilla do the same thing.  Can you just
access the second uri as a different user?  What harm is there in
sending the most recent auth if no username is specified?

-Alex

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