On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:34:19AM +0200, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote: > >> It appears curl do not support the PREAUTH tag. > > Too bad. IMHO preauth is the main reason to use a tunnel in the first > > place. > > It shouldn't be too hard to add support for this in curl. > If it's the main usecase, it'll simply means the curl tunnelling > should be disabled by default for older curl (in this case, meaning > every version until it gets supported) versions. Yes, I agree. I was hoping when we started this discussion that we were more ready to switch to curl-by-default. But sadly, that isn't close to being the case. But hopefully we can at least end up with logic that lets us use it in the easy cases (no tunneling) and falls back in the harder ones. -Peff