Re: Authentication in existing WebDAV servers

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Richard C. wrote:
> I am writing a Java problem to connect to WebDAV server, I am using
> HTTPClient library, so should I use basic authentication or digest
> authentication?  

The WebDAV spec states that Digest authentication must be used.

However, all clients and servers, that I'm aware of, are flexible in this
regard. For example, Apache and mod_dav will allow the use of Basic
authentication.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/