Re: Websec and Digest Authentication

[Patrick Healy]

Normal web authentication sends that user/pw combination over the net
in cleartext; digest is a  technology that encrypts them using MD5
before sending. I've tried that technique as well, but unfortunately
the call that websec uses (authorization_basic, I believe, doesn't
support digest auth, and I don't know enough LWP to fix it.)

Thanks anyway, though, Dominik! I appreciate the effort.

Patrick Healy


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:12:00 +0200 (MEST), Dominik Stadler
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am also using websec on a daily basis to monitor many pages and I like it
> because I can extend the perl-scripts very easily. I
> 
> don't know what "Digest Authentication" means exactly, so don't blame me if
> the following is rubbish, but I was able to monitor password-protected sites
> with an URL in the form of (note the colon and at-sign):
> 
> http://user:address@hidden
> 
> Hope that helps...Dominik.
> 
> 
> 
> > I use websec every day, but one problem I have with it is that I can't
> > get it to retrieve pages protected by digest authentication. Anyone
> > know how I can get this to work? I'm using 1.7.0.
> >
> > Thanks!
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