Re: Digest Auth...
wmperry@spry.com
Mon, 24 Apr 95 20:20 PDT
Eric W. Sink writes:
>
> >> http://www.spyglass.com:4040/~eric/protected/digest.txt
> >>
> >> username Timon
> >> password HakunaMatata
> >
> > Doesn't appear to be working... :)
> >
> >[wmperry]telnet www.spyglass.com 4040
> >Trying 192.246.238.10...
> >Connected to spyglass.com.
> >Escape character is '^]'.
> >GET /~eric/protected/digest.txt HTTP/1.0
> >
> >Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> > D'ohhh!
>
> On the contrary -- it works just fine, sortof :-). I did forget to mention
> that this particular server requires the Extension: Security/Digest header,
> as mentioned in the draft. If you send that header along, it will function
> correctly. It's behavior without the header is kind of questionable. This
> is just a copy of NCSA httpd 1.3 which I hacked to support Digest.
Great - thanks for the info. Seems to work. Cooool. :)
-Bill P.