Re: Websec and Digest Authentication

[Baruch Even]

Hi,

I can't find any example of using LWP to handle Digest authentication,
I'll try to look at it to implement it. If someone else can beat me to
it and provide a patch it would be appreciated.

Baruch

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:55, Patrick Healy wrote:
> 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
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > 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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