More stupid Digest authentication questions/comments (and some nits). Dave Kristol ============= Substantive: 1) Suppose a client wants to get back an entity digest on a GET. a) C->S GET /foo HTTP/1.1 ... b) C<-S HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized WWW-Authenticate: Digest qop="auth, auth-int", s-other-stuff ... c) C->S GET /foo HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Digest qop="auth-in", c-other-stuff ... Now, for qop="auth-int", the client must include H(entity-body) in the calculation of A2. But there is no entity-body. Does the client use the null string when it calculates A2? 2) Same example. Suppose the server decides, for whatever reason, that it *can't* calculate the response-digest for AuthenticationInfo. How should the server respond? Error code? (Which one?) AuthenticateInfo header with no rspauth attribute? Nits: 3.2.1 The WWW-Authenticate Response Header has this notation: time-stamp H(time-stamp ":" ETag ":" private-key) and this notation: KD(secret, data) = H(concat(secret, ":", data)) Since the second example is the only instance of concat(), I suggest it be changed to be like the rest: KD(secret, data) = H(secret ":" data) 3.2.2 The Authorization Request Header "absoluteURL". The "cnonce-value" is an optional client-chosen ^-- delete value whose purpose is to foil chosen plaintext attacks.Received on Thursday, 9 April 1998 12:28:47 UTC
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