HTTP Digest support ?

Michael Shadle mike503 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 23:33:50 MSD 2010


+1

I believe if spnego fails its supposed to fall back to digest. I'd like to have that implemented properly.

On Sep 8, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Andriod Dev <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Jonas Pfenniger wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> is it planned to add digest auth at some time ? It's not that basic
>> auth is not useful, but it's pretty weak on replay attacks. Nowadays,
>> every common browser supports digest auth so it would be really a
>> plus.
>> 
>> I'm also interested if it could support internal urls for the internal
>> password file, like X-Accel-Redirect does. It would be really useful
>> to delegate authentication to a third-party web application in a
>> multi-application setup.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Any update on digest auth? I want to write a web service that would 
> connect to a remote third party web server for retrieving data. The 
> remote server requires digest authentication.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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