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 At 12:53 PM -0500 1/8/04, Rich Salz wrote: >Given the recent messages and links about digest, I think we have to >admit that it's a non-interoperable mechanism that's only slightly >better than basic-auth and it's client-side management facilities >and end-user knowledge is worse than cookies. I certainly don't agree that client side management is worse than cookies. In the browser's I use the mechanisms for managing user names and passwords on the client side, while certainly not something I'd like my mother to rely on and in definite need of improvement, are clearly better than those for managing cookies. I'm not sure what you mean by "end-user knowledge" in this context. If it's ease of use, then again I think the password storage mechanisms are better than the cookie mechanisms. But maybe you meant something else? It may well be that digest authentication is uninteroperable on the web as it exists today. However, that hasn't been shown to be the case yet. The references I've seen so far are several years old. It's entirely possible the problems have been fixed by now, or can be fixed on the server side. Does anyone have current information about the state of digest authentication? -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA 
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