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On Jan 10, 2004, at 7:36 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 3:19 PM -0800 1/9/04, Stan Dyck wrote:
>
>> I searched around and found some evidence that lynx supports digest
>> authentication, but nothing on how to make it work. Any ideas?
>
>
> No. I don't know much about Lynx. Do you have a link to this evidence.
> Google wasn't able to turn up anything relevant, nor did I find
> anything on the Lynx web site.
>
>
After looking a bit closer, the site I saw [1] doesn't really say that
lynx supports http digest, but that it supports http/1.1. It's not
terribly clear to me what they are saying. I can't find anything else
either.
> Lynx is actually a very important (and often unappreciated) browser to
> support for reasons of accessibility. If it were the major stumbling
> block to adoption of digest authentication, it might be worth putting
> in the time to fix it.
>
Agreed.
StanD.
[1] http://wanderware.com/htm/http.htm
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