Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug--Wget] Issue with RFC 2067 Digest Headers

[Darshit Shah]

> There is just that little issue (more a kind of favour) that I mentioned
> under
> as 2. : When the server does not mention 'algorithm' in WWW-Authenticate:,
> should we introduce it in the clients Authenticate: Header ? I can't say
> what
> is better... RFC 2069 and RFC 2617 leave it open.
> At least we would introduce an additional (unneeded) xstrdup/free.
>
> Yes. Even I've been giving this some thought. Should we or should we not
include the algorithm attribute in the Authorization Header when it wasn't
a part of the response? As Tim mentioned, RFC 2069 and RFC 2617 both state
nothing about this attribute.

I don't see the harm in sending it anyways. The Server should simply ignore
it.

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah