Re: Authentication

On Jun 2, 2005, at 1:56 AM, William Ferguson wrote:

> // pack the providers into an array
> apr_array_header_t *providers;
> // add provider - probably just need one simple one that reads the
> usernmae
> form the params perhaps?

That's the problem. You've installed only 1 provider, the one which
sucks the {username, password} credential structure from the
parameter hash. So when the server challenges the client, the client
asks this one provider, which returns {username, NULL} -- because
there's no SVN_AUTH_PARAM_DEFAULT_PASSWORD sitting in the parameter
hash. And you get failure.

If you were to add other providers -- like ones that pull credentials
from the disk cache, or ones that prompt the user, then the client
would have more options for digging up the password.

Remember, the username doesn't exist in a vacuum. The server and
client operate on a {username, password} *pair*.

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Received on Thu Jun 2 14:54:03 2005