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From: Dennis Groves (dwgmac.com)
Date: Sun Jan 06 2002 - 02:42:48 CST

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    > On 2002-01-05 17:17:35 -0800, Mark Curphey wrote:
    >> Dave Zimmer wrote this great paper on HTTP Authentication for the new
    >> Monthly OWASP Guest White paper section.
    >>
    >> http://www.owasp.org/resources/whitepapers/http_authentication.txt
    >>
    > Nice summary. I'd add the following caveats.
    >
    > While Apache supports digest authentication only a few clients support
    > it such as wget, amaya and mozilla. Notably neither IE5.5 nor NS4.7x do.
    >
    > To test a client try
    > http://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/Digest/
    >
    > both wget and mozilla can handle
    > jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/Digest/">http://guest:guestjigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/Digest/
    >
    > -Len

    Internet Explorer Mac OS X, does support it. FWIW. 

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