- From: John C. Mallery <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:08:31 -0400
- To: Alex Hopmann <hopmann@holonet.net>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 6:05 PM -0700 1996-08-27, Alex Hopmann wrote: > >>To the best of my >>knowledge Microsoft also does not support digest. Some earlier >>versions of MSIE supported digest authentication, but the latest >>version has apparently withdrawn that support. (These comments are >>only based on experience with the Mac version of MSIE so maybe things >>are different with Windows). > >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. > Actually, spyglass has such servers as do I. You can test the digest support from the examples/documentation at http://wilson.ai.mit.edu/cl-http/cl-http.html, along with other 1.1 features. We tested implementation against theirs about a yaer ago when we first did it. I vote for a *must* on digest authentication. We would be much happier using it rather than basic on a number of public web pages. Of course, MD5 does have it shortcomings so it is important to implement the extensions that allow the algorithm to be specified.
Received on Tuesday, 27 August 1996 21:11:41 UTC