removed --continue task (done)

added URL to the NTLM task
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Daniel Stenberg 2001-02-16 13:41:34 +00:00
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@ -23,11 +23,8 @@ For the future
URLs mentioned in the list. I figure -O or something would have to be
implied by such an action.
* Improve the regular progress meter with --continue is used. It should be
noticable when there's a resume going on.
* Add a command line option that allows the output file to get the same time
stamp as the remote file. We already are capable of fetching the remote
stamp as the remote file. libcurl already is capable of fetching the remote
file's date.
* Make the SSL layer option capable of using the Mozilla Security Services as
@ -58,13 +55,15 @@ For the future
started in October 1999 but halted again since it proved more work than we
thought. It is still a good idea to implement though.
* Authentication: NTLM. It would be cool to support that MS crap called NTLM
* Authentication: NTLM. It would be to support that MS crap called NTLM
authentication. MS proxies and servers sometime require that. Since that
protocol is a proprietary one, it involves reverse engineering and network
sniffing. This should however be a library-based functionality. There are a
few different efforts "out there" to make open source HTTP clients support
this and it should be possible to take advantage of other people's hard
work. http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/ is one.
work. http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/ is one. There's a web page at
http://www.innovation.ch/java/ntlm.html that contains detailed reverse-
engineered info.
* RFC2617 compliance, "Digest Access Authentication"
A valid test page seem to exist at: