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Re: still more Digest Authentication comments

From: Eric W. Sink <eric@spyglass.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:56:31 -0600
Message-Id: <ab95eaca0302100491c1@[192.246.238.160]>
To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com 

>The case problem (is it 789ABCDEF or 789abcdef?) is important because
>digests of A1 and A2 themselves get digested in <digest>.  Clearly a
>digest of 789ABCDEF is different from a digest of 789abcdef.

I agree with Dave on this.  It makes a difference, and it's easier to just
be explicit.

BTW, I'm currently adding support for Digest authentication to the NCSA
httpd server.


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Eric W. Sink, Senior Software Engineer --  eric@spyglass.com

        http://www.spyglass.com/~eric/home.htm
Received on Wednesday, 22 March 1995 08:18:18 EST

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