The following reply was made to PR mod_digest/4957; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Life is hard, and then you die." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: mod_digest/4957: mod_auth_digest failed with incorrect nonce value Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:54:52 +0200 (MET DST) > check_nonce code in mod_auth_digest code does not work correctly in > HP-UX CC compiler where the strcmp(hash, resp->nonce+NONCE_TIME_LEN) > always failed. I modified the mod_auth_digest code to extract the hash > from resp->nonce and it works for HP-UX 10.20 and HPUX 11.0. the diff > is below. Hmm, could explain why the code fails? Is this a bug in the compiler? What optimization flags did you compile the module with, and what happens if you compile w/o optimization? While the patch is basically ok, I completely fail to see why the original code has a problem, and why the patch fixes it. Cheers, Ronald
