[thelist] digest authentication - current status?
SZ Beam
sbeam at syxyz.net
Mon Dec 15 09:52:50 CST 2003
Folks!
I was wondering what the current support-level for the HTTP Digest
Authentication scheme is. I know this was broken in NN4 and IE4, last I
looked, due to differing types of non-complicance with the RFC (surprise).
Googling around gave me a bunch of out-of-date material on it. So does anyone
use it? does IE6+ and Moz and Safari handle it properly (or gracefully fall
back to Basic if not)?
Been using cookie-based tokenized authentication for years, but a intranet app
I am upgrading uses WebDAV for document management. So HTTP authentication
allows single-login for viewing, uploading etc, against a managed DB of
users/groups. Pretty slick.
thanks
-S
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