RE: Escaping <\> in HTTP Digest (RFC 2617)

IE7 uses WDigest.dll, which escapes the \ into \\.
IE6 and previous versions relied on Digest.dll, which did not escape the \.

Thanks,

Eric Lawrence
Program Manager
Internet Explorer Networking


-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Alexey Melnikov
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 2:44 PM
To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Subject: Escaping <\> in HTTP Digest (RFC 2617)


Hi,
I would like to get some feedback on what HTTP Digest implementations do
with '\' in username/realm/password. For example, if I have a username
'example.com\user1', do implementations hash 'example.com\\user1' (i.e.
the \ is escaped with another \), or just 'example.com\user1' (single
slash).

Thanks,
Alexey