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yep Netscape 7+ fails (operation time out on attempt to connect to URL)
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 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.
>
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