Re: GSSAPI and V2 protocol

Kris Jurka wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:34:19AM -0500, Kris Jurka wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to authenticate using GSSAPI over the V2 protocol? Is
>>> there any documentation on the message formats for V2?
>>
>> Honestly - don't know :-) Never looked at that part. I mean, the V2
>> protocol is *really* old by now, isn't it? Do you actually need it for
>> something?
>>
>
> The JDBC driver exposes an option to connect via either protocol
> version. I was looking at adding GSSAPI support and it seemed orthogonal
> to the protocol version used, but I couldn't get it working under V2.
> People still use the V2 protocol to connect because it uses string
> interpolation for ? in prepared statements while V3 passes them out of
> line. So for apps that do things like "SELECT timestamp ? " that will
> only work under V2.

Ok. I see the reason, but I can't help you further. Requires a deeper
dig in the code, I guess.

Does this mean you have GSSAPI auth working for protocol v3? :-)

//Magnus