DIGEST-MD5 on HTTP webserver

Nil Croustillac nilcroustillac at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 05:53:54 EDT 2013


I noticed that but I wonder how to use it on server side and by
starting/releasing a new server at each request.
I have seen the client example and it doesn't really help in my case.

I'll continue investigating but any help would be appreciated :)


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Alexey Melnikov
<alexey.melnikov at isode.com>wrote:

> Actually, Cyrus SASL now supports HTTP Digest via a flag.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 1 Aug 2013, at 08:08, Phil Pennock <cyrus-sasl-phil at spodhuis.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2013-07-31 at 17:07 +0200, Nil Croustillac wrote:
> >> It's been a while now I am trying to implement the Digest authentication
> >> with the Cyrus SASL library and I don't understand how to proceed.
> >> I am using the version 2.1.25 and only support digest mechanism, here is
> >> the desired behaviour (which doesn't work)
> >
> > HTTP does not use SASL as a framing layer.
> >
> > You want to read RFC 2617 which explains what goes into the headers at
> > each step, and implement based on that.  There are definite similarities
> > between HTTP Digest Authentication and DIGEST-MD5 as used in SASL, but a
> > SASL library won't typically help with HTTP.
> >
> > You might try using libcurl instead?
> >
> > -Phil
>
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