On 2003.11.02, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's what I already told... One must do these things by hand in Tcl. > But this point shows a *limitation* in the current AS design.
Exactly how is this a limitation? If it were the case that there WAS no way to implement Digest authentication under the current AOLserver, I'd say then THAT would be a limitation. It's important to distinguish between "not yet implemented" vs. "not currently implementable." The former is simply not feature complete. The latter is a flaw in the design. AOLserver has few design flaws. It does, however, not very feature complete. Given my choice, I much prefer something that does a few things exceptionally well than something that does everything but poorly or as a conglomeration of hacks. > Much better would be to be able to register callbacks (C or Tcl) at some > points in the request processing which would do the right thing. > Then, other high-level stuff like "ns_conn authuser" would already return > "correct" values. Is there really that much demand for Digest authentication? Other than non-SSL WebDAV, what else actually implements Digest auth as a requirement? -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
