Request for help: digest authentication implementation

As you may know, we are in the final stages of the HTTP/1.1 process for
going to draft standard. One of the things that we need is to show that
digest authentication works as specified by

   ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-authentication-01.txt

I am looking for volunteers that have a) already implemented this in libwww
or b) would like to do so in the near future. If so do they want to share
the code with the rest of the libwww community?

The hooks for new authentication schemes are already there - they can be
registered dynamically in libwww using the HTAA_newModule(...) function
described in

   http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTAAUtil.html 

The Basic auth is done this way and you can find the implementation in

   http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTAABrow.html

In

   http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTAABrow.c

I started a long time ago making a digest implementation but it's not
finished and needs some work to get working.

Any taker for this task? I can assure you that you will get a lot of
applause from everybody working on HTTP!

Henrik
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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk

Received on Monday, 20 July 1998 11:07:14 UTC