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Re: Digest auth and Range and qop=auth-int

From: Dave Kristol <dmk@research.bell-labs.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:38:41 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199804161638.MAA19654@aleatory.research.bell-labs.com>
To: john@math.nwu.edu
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
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John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu> wrote:
  > [in response to DMK]

  > I think that one way to do this would be to chunk the entire 
  > multipart/byteranges response and calculate the MD5 digest while
  > chunking.  The Authentication-Info header could then be put in
  > a trailer of the chunking.
  > 
  > Is there any reason not to chunk a multipart/byterange?  Is doing
  > so consistent with the spec?

That's the only approach I could imagine using, short of precomputing
the entire response.  But I wasn't altogether sure it was valid, though
neither can I think of a reason why it is not.  That's why I asked.

I'm in the process of implementing auth-int and it is, to be charitable,
"challenging".  Has anyone else implemented server-side auth-int?  Is
anyone else *planning* to?

Dave Kristol
Received on Thursday, 16 April 1998 09:43:05 UTC

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