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At 8:52 PM -0500 1/8/04, Rich Salz wrote:
>Did you miss the posting where I said IE5 just gives up? Given the
>market penetration of IE5 on the web, I think that's sufficient proof
>that interoperable digest isn't available now. Of all the web sites
>you use, do you know of one that does it?
Since I don't happen to know of a real world web site that uses
digest authentication, (very few use even basic) I set up digest
authentication on one of my servers and ran my own tests. You (and
anyone else) can check this out for yourself at
http://www.elharo.com/staging/
Username: invited
Password: test
This is a Red Hat 8.0 Linux box running Apache 2.0.40 with whatever
patches Red Hat's released over the last year or so. I haven't done
anything special to the server in that respect.
Here are my results:
Internet Explorer 6.0 Windows 2000: Works
Internet Explorer 5.1 Mac OS 9: Works
Internet Explorer 5.2 Mac OS X: Works
Mozilla 1.4 Linux: Works
Mozilla 1.3 Mac OS 9: Works
Safari 1.0 Mac OS X: Works
Netscape Navigator 6.2 Mac OS 9: Fails
Opera 7.11 Windows: Works
I assume Netscape 4.x fails as well. Netscape 7 probably works. These
are just the browsers I have handy. I'm sorry I do not have a
Windows machine with IE 5.5 or earlier or Opera 6.0 or earlier to
test on. Please do hit my page with your copy of IE5 and let me know
what happens. Also anybody else, who has a browser not on this list,
please also check out the page and report your results.
So far, though I cannot verify the claim that Borg clients can only
operate with Borg servers. Indeed I dispute that claim for Borg IE
6.0, and for Mac Borg. :-) Possibly, the reverse is true: that is,
it's possible that IIS only works with IE, but Apache 2.0 does seem
to work with IE.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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