Digest Authentication

• To: Chris Brew <chrisbr@mail.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
• Subject: Digest Authentication
• From: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
• Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 15:49:30 -0500
• Cc: "Choi jong won (WM-DM-4338-96.8.1)" <jwchoi@lgsemicon.co.kr>, WWW-CL@ai.mit.edu
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At 10:46 AM +0000 3/14/97, Chris Brew wrote:
>>Is Digest Authentication routine completed? On my system(CL-HTTP 60-110 devo,
>>Allegro 4.2, UNIX), it doesn't work. E.g., it always fails examples in
>>
>>cl-http/authentication/digest-example.html
>>
>>- Jong-won Choi
>
>You need to be sure that your _client_ supports digest authentication.
>I understand that Netscape Navigator 3.0 doesn't, but that Microsoft Internet
>Explorer does.

Netscape 4.0 will support HTTP 1.1. Digest Authentication is required for HTTP 1.1
conformance.  Netscape has agreed to implement Digest Authentication.
It doesn't look like Netscape 4.0b2 for the mac supports it yet.

• Q) Digest Authentication
• From: "Choi jong won (WM-DM-4338-96.8.1)" <jwchoi@lgsemicon.co.kr>
• Re: Q) Digest Authentication
• From: Chris Brew <chrisbr@mail.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

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