- From: Beth Frank <efrank@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:02:03 -0500 (CDT)
- To: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Cc: efrank@ncsa.uiuc.edu, 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 We support Digest Authentication in R1.5, which is currenly in beta test. I believe it is interoperable with (and based on) the Spyglass implementation. The new feature documentation for release 1.5 is located at: http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/beta-1.5/features.html The MD5 specific documentation is located at: http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/beta-1.5/howto/md5_auth.html -- Elizabeth(Beth) Frank NCSA Server Development Team efrank@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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