[cups.development] http_t in cups 1.3

[Michael Sweet]

BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> (please CC replies to me, I'm not subscribed to list)
> 
> Hello, I hope this is the right forum to ask this question. In cups
> 1.3, the http_t seems to have become opaque so you can't directly
> access its fields.  So I wonder how do you write the common idiom:
> 
> httpSetField(request->http, HTTP_FIELD_AUTHORIZATION,
> request->http->authstring);
> 
> which works in 1.2 in 1.3? In 1.3 the authstring attribute isn't
> directly accessible.

The recommended way is to use the cupsDoAuthenticate() function,
which handles all of the supported authentication schemes.  The
authstring member is only used by that function and needs to be
updated for every request with most authentication methods.

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