- From: Alex Hopmann <hopmann@holonet.net>
- Date: 27 Aug 96 19:29:04 -0700
- To: hallam@ai.mit.edu, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> >>I was actually speaking with the MSIE folks about this just today- They >>removed the digest support because they couldn't find any servers to >test >>it against. They have assured me that it will be back in the next version. > >The common Lisp Web server has had it for some time now. Also Spyglass >implemented it in their server. Originally Jeff wanted digest because >he wanted to configure the server from the net and did not like the >idea of BASIC. > Oh yea, we have also been implementing it for some time now- I know there were several implementations out there, just I guess it wasn't obvious how to find them... In any case I am hearing from Lou and others that it should like noone is objecting to digest authentication in 1.1, right? In other words, various people may have things that are better (certificates, SSL, etc), but digest is easy so everyone can implement it as a minimum standard that is signifigantly better than basic. Right? Alex Hopmann ResNova Software hopmann@holonet.net http://www.resnova.com/
Received on Tuesday, 27 August 1996 19:32:09 UTC