Re: [patch] Authenticating proxies & LWP
John Klar (j.klar@xpedite.com)
Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:39:05 -0400
Gisle Aas wrote:
>
> Looks good, but to me it feels like the correct place for this hack is
> in the LWP::Protocol::http module. Not that I actually expect us
> start proxying over something else than HTTP anytime soon, but just in
> case. The LWP design allow any protocol module to proxy.
Ah, yes. I hadn't gotten far enough to grok the system architecture.
The
funny thing is that I wanted to poke around and see how this was handled
for password protected pages :)
> This is the patch I checked in:
Great! Those of us stuck behind auth-proxies thank you :)
I got one report that the $p_auth scalar should be unescaped also. His
username has embedded '\'.
> Thanks!
Happy to be of use.
> Regards,
> Gisle
John