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

fre 2007-03-23 klockan 13:24 -0700 skrev Eric Lawrence:
> I should clarify that IE removes the escaping before calculating the hash for each directive value.
> 
> Hence IE6 and IE7 behavior are the same in this regard, we still hash "redmond\ericlaw" when username is sent as "redmond\\ericlaw".

If I understand this correctly a server which wishes to interoperate
with IE6 need to be careful in how it dequotes the username-value, and
only remove \ infront of " or \

Regards
Henrik