Re: Help: TLS server receives a large amount of Authorization information along with application data

Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:52:55 +0100 (CET)

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On Fri, 29 Mar 2024, Jason Qian via curl-users wrote:

>   curl_easy_setopt(_curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE);
>
>   This seems an unnecessary configuration, if SSL is enabled ?

Why so?

TLS is for connection layer security. Negotiate is for HTTP layer 
authorization. They are often combined.

But if you don't need Negotiate auth, then just drop it.

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