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• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Non-Borg servers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation)
• From: Stan Dyck <sgd@s...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:15:39 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <p06010204bc25cc012b88@[192.168.254.4]>
• References: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0401082047570.6682-100000@s...> <p06010200bc248438b415@[192.168.254.4]> <p06010203bc24df9d2d02@[192.168.254.4]> <48338738-42FA-11D8-A148-0003938BA4B4@s...> <p06010204bc25cc012b88@[192.168.254.4]>

On Jan 10, 2004, at 7:36 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> At 3:19 PM -0800 1/9/04, Stan Dyck wrote:
>
>> I searched around and found some evidence that lynx supports digest 
>> authentication, but nothing on how to make it work. Any ideas?
>
>
> No. I don't know much about Lynx. Do you have a link to this evidence. 
> Google wasn't able to turn up anything relevant, nor did I find 
> anything on the Lynx web site.
>
>
After looking a bit closer, the site I saw [1] doesn't really say that 
lynx supports http digest, but that it supports http/1.1. It's not 
terribly clear to me what they are saying. I can't find anything else 
either.

> Lynx is actually a very important (and often unappreciated) browser to 
> support for reasons of accessibility. If it were the major stumbling 
> block to adoption of digest authentication, it might be worth putting 
> in the time to fix it.
>

Agreed.

StanD.

[1] http://wanderware.com/htm/http.htm

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