IMSP and Digest-MD5

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Feb 17 11:48:16 EST 2004


On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, William K. Hardeman wrote:

> Funny. I saw that in the IMSP server sources and didn't even twig that it
> was "imap" instead of "imsp", otherwise I would have modified the server
> sources.
>
> Wouldn't it be better if this were filed as a bug with CMU and get the
> service name changed in the server sources? That, to me, would seem to be
> the better way to handle this going forward, since imap and imsp are two
> different services.

Thats the problem with a lack of standardization of this protocol.

Unfortuinately, *all* of the deployment is using "imap" as the service
name.  Changing this now will break *all* deployed software.

I'm not about to do that.  At best, it could be made a config option.

-Rob

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