Re: Mozilla and Digest Authentication

From: Jason Brown [MSFT] (i-brjaso_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:37:17 +1100

Cheers Ken

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Jason Brown
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"Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message 
news:e5Ivg6ZHFHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Digest Authentication is defined in an RFC (RFC 2617), and Mozilla/Firefox
> definately supports it.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
>
> "Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
> news:42279ffa.867702319@msnews.microsoft.com...
> : On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:57:14 +0100, Martijn <no@spam.com> wrote:
> :
> : >Dear Sir, Miss,
> : >
> : >I am trying to setup proper authentication on a IIS 5.0 (Win2K server)
> : >website that works fine with Mozilla 1.7x and IE6.
> : >
> : >1) I tried "Windows authentication" mode in IIS. It works with both
> : >browsers but not always. It depends on the kind of network, firewall,
> : >proxy etc.
> : >
> : >2) I switched over to the "Digest Authentication" method.
> : >In combination with IE6 I did not met problems, but working with Moz 
> 1.7
> : >(of Firefox) failed:
> : >
> : >- I goto a page on the IIS server
> : >- I logon -> OK, this page is loaded and shown
> : >- I click on a link to go to another page on that site: the browser
> : >reports "The network request is not supported"
> : >
> : >a) Is Mozilla "IIS 5 Digest Authentication" compliant?
> : >b) any suggestions?
> :
> : Basic authentication is the only guranteed working one across the
> : board.
> :
> : Jeff
>
>
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