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Re: Proposal for new HTTP 1.1 authentication scheme

From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 17:30:10 +0000
Message-Id: <348D8022.72F367FE@algroup.co.uk>
To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
Cc: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>, Eric_Houston/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com, Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com 
Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
> Could the spec be fixed without interoperability trouble emerging?
> 
> (Query to digest implementers???).

Apache's Digest Auth is marked as experimental, and since no
widely-deployed browser implements Digest, I'd guess it won't be a big
deal.

Cheers,

Ben.

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