| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-04-05.

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GSSAPI
GSSAPI.Context

# Class GSSAPI.Context

Description

  Class representing a security context; see RFC 2743 section 1.1.3. The user usually instantiates one of the two inheriting classes GSSAPI.InitContext or GSSAPI.AcceptContext , based on whether the context should act as initiator or acceptor for the connection. This class is instantiated directly for imported contexts.

Note

  If a Context object for a partly or completely established context is destructed, `GSS_Delete_sec_context` (RFC 2743, section 2.2.3) is called. That function might do blocking network I/O, which due to pike's object management might occur essentially anytime in any thread if the object isn't explicitly destructed. To avoid that, it's strongly recommended to call delete in contexts that are no longer used.