- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:15:30 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Beth Frank <efrank@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
According to Beth Frank: > > On behalf of the NCSA Server Development Team, I'd like to request that > people who want new features implemented but do not (or do) plan to > implement them themselves, to send us a description of their goals and > their implementation. We routinely review requests and implement those > that seem useful, interesting, or widely requested. We are more interested > in research than the marketplace and have less to lose if we invest a > lot of time in something that later gets drops in favor of something else. > > -- > Elizabeth(Beth) Frank > NCSA Server Development Team > efrank@ncsa.uiuc.edu > Okay, how about Digest Authentication. There is a complete draft specification. It has been implemented in Spyglass browsers and several servers. It would be great if it could make it into NCSA browsers and servers. It is much easier that SHTTP (no cost, no legal entanglements) and it would meet a lot of peoples needs. John Franks
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