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 yep Netscape 7+ fails (operation time out on attempt to connect to URL) Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > At 8:52 PM -0500 1/8/04, Rich Salz wrote: > > >> Did you miss the posting where I said IE5 just gives up? Given the >> market penetration of IE5 on the web, I think that's sufficient proof >> that interoperable digest isn't available now. Of all the web sites >> you use, do you know of one that does it? > > > Since I don't happen to know of a real world web site that uses digest > authentication, (very few use even basic) I set up digest > authentication on one of my servers and ran my own tests. You (and > anyone else) can check this out for yourself at > http://www.elharo.com/staging/ > Username: invited > Password: test > > This is a Red Hat 8.0 Linux box running Apache 2.0.40 with whatever > patches Red Hat's released over the last year or so. I haven't done > anything special to the server in that respect. > > Here are my results: > > Internet Explorer 6.0 Windows 2000: Works > Internet Explorer 5.1 Mac OS 9: Works > Internet Explorer 5.2 Mac OS X: Works > Mozilla 1.4 Linux: Works > Mozilla 1.3 Mac OS 9: Works > Safari 1.0 Mac OS X: Works > Netscape Navigator 6.2 Mac OS 9: Fails > Opera 7.11 Windows: Works > > I assume Netscape 4.x fails as well. Netscape 7 probably works. These > are just the browsers I have handy. I'm sorry I do not have a Windows > machine with IE 5.5 or earlier or Opera 6.0 or earlier to test on. > Please do hit my page with your copy of IE5 and let me know what > happens. Also anybody else, who has a browser not on this list, please > also check out the page and report your results. > > So far, though I cannot verify the claim that Borg clients can only > operate with Borg servers. Indeed I dispute that claim for Borg IE > 6.0, and for Mac Borg. :-) Possibly, the reverse is true: that is, > it's possible that IIS only works with IE, but Apache 2.0 does seem to > work with IE. > -- From the desk of James [Jim] E. Landrum III Archaeology Materials and Database Manager, Archaeology Technologies Laboratory (ATL), North Dakota State University (NDSU). Ph. 701-231-7115 FAX: 701-231-1047 Email: james.landrum@n... ATL Web Site: http://atl.ndsu.edu Digital Archive Network for Anthropology and World Heritage (DANA-WH) DANA-WH Web Site: http://www.dana-wh.net 
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