[Gnu-arch-users] Re: HTTP access to CVS

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:45:10 +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Jan Hudec <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > It's not supported by libneon?!?! 
> 
> Yes it is. If the program using libneon tells libneon "please, use
> this proxy, and use this callback to get username and password", then
> libneon will use it. This is what my branch of tla does. (The

Oh, well. I hoped it will read http_proxy by itself, but if it does
not...

> ~/.authinfo parsing is a bit long, but just getting the username and
> password from $http_proxy could be done in a few lines of C -- By the
> way, this is IMHO a very bad idea to store password in environment
> variables for security reasons)
> 
> -- 
> Matthieu
> 
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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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