Re: [xml] [PATCH] xmlIO HTTPS handler using libcurl [version 2]

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:38:43PM -0400, joel reed wrote:
> Yes I agree another dependency is annoying. We are doing forms based 
> authentication over SSL here, so the need to handle http basic/digest 
> type authentication hasn't come up but I can see the usefulness for others.

  I see,

> One thing I had considered is making the curl patch handle http, https, 
> ftp, sftps, and whatever else (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/features.html) 
> libcurl can handle that would be of interest for xmlIO. As part of that 
> I could add an authentication callback.
>
> Could we say that if you enable curl support,  nano http/ftp handlers 
> are disabled at compile time or would you like to approach it some other 
> way? (if the above sounds interesting) If the dependency is really too 
> annoying, no problem, patch can sit on mailing list for others if they 
> need it.

  I tend to think that if we integrate curl support then let's do it
fully, and avoid the nano side of things. Then the configure option 
would really be useful to a larger audience.
  At this point my take is that an optional feature plugging curl fully
replacing the nano modules and adding authentication would makes a
lot more sense than a limited plug, and that should be added to the 
default code base because a lot more users are likely to use/debug/fix
potential problems.

   Makes sense ?

Daniel

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