Re: Message Digest Authentication

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At 08:21 AM 3/13/96 +0100, Hans de Graaff wrote:
>> In message <199603102039.PAA19634@mailbox.osf.org>, Doug MacEachern writes:
>> > Here's two patches for LWP::UserAgent and lwp-request to support message
>> > digest authentication.  The patches are against the latest b9 release.   
>> > It is based on NCSA's implementation and the Digest Access Authentication
>> > internet-draft.  It requires Neil Winston's MD5 module version 1.4, there's
>> > a new release too (1.5.1), but I haven't looked at it yet.  It doesn't
check
>> > for the optional 'Digest-MessageDigest' header from the server.  But,
as far
>> > as I know, NCSA is the only server that supports digest auth, and it
doesn't
>> > seem to send it, so I think it can wait.  
>
>The WN server also has an prototype Digest Authentification module. I
>do use the server, but haven't actually looked at this module.
>
>More information is available at http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/docs/index.html

Thanks.
  I didn't know this until yesterday, but Spyglass was actually the first to
support this model.

-Doug

>
>Hans
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>Hans de Graaff                              J.J.deGraaff@TWI.TUDelft.NL
>Delft University of Technology        Department of Information Systems
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