Commit 434bc092 authored by Steve Holme's avatar Steve Holme
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TODO: Added auth= in URLs to the wish list for HTTP

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 5.2 support FF3 sqlite cookie files
 5.3 Rearrange request header order
 5.4 HTTP2/SPDY
 5.5 auth= in URLs

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 6.1 ditch stdin
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 be a better option, either used directly or wrapped with a more spindly-like
 API.

5.5 auth= in URLs

 Add the ability to specify the preferred authentication mechanism to use by
 using ;auth=<mech> in the login part of the URL.

 For example:

 http://test:pass;auth=NTLM@example.com would be equivalent to specifing --user
 test:pass;auth=NTLM or --user test:pass --ntlm from the command line. 

 Additionally this should be implemented for proxy base URLs as well.

6. TELNET