Re: Howto specify password and AUTH field in POP url ?

[Sam Roberts]

Wrote Olivier Bornet <address@hidden>, on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:57:40PM +0100:
> Hello,
> 
> > One thing I wanted to do was be able to register multiple authentication
> > sources, so you put the wicket_t object first, then some object that
> > queries the user, for example. As soon as one of the auth objects
> > returns the auth info, then the search would stop. As it is, you have
> > only one source, and only user names and passwords, what if you needed a
> > private key and a certificate to complete an ssl exchange?
> 
> Interesting. What it will be also usefull is to have some kind of
> "auto-auth" feature. This mean : use the most secure way when possible.
> For example, with a POP account, I want to try +APOP first, and if this
> fails, try without APOP. It this already possible ?

No, that to is not possible.

> > Btw, I did document this in url.texi, did you find this, or is it too
> > dusty a corner?
> 
> I have found in url.texi the sytax for the URL. And this is from this
> file I have think mixing AUTH and password is not possible. So, this is
> correctly documented.
> 
> What I don't have found in the doc is some help how to use ticket_t and
> wicket_t. I think this can be usefull, for example in auth.texi. I think
> auth.texi is not enough complete. (maybe because I don't have understand
> the small sample with my_authenticate () ...)

Most of the mailutils API isn't documented, you probably have noticed,
except for (maybe) function prototypes, which aren't always right, and
certainly aren't enough to use the API.

I would like to move the API documentation into the .c files, in the
form of doxygen comments. I have a (ruby) script which converts
doxygen's xml output to texinfo that I was experimenting with. Yet
another thing to do.

Cheers,
Sam

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Sam Roberts <address@hidden>