> > AFAIK, right now, this is a rare case. And if you stumble upon it in the > real > world, the auth-schemes involved might or might not include the ones that > Wget > supports (Basic|Digest). > > One of the major reasons why I asked around on whether we are genuinely interested in fixing this. The case is extremely rare, AFAIK only a very small subset of Apache servers do this. Even Curl I think does not support handling multiple auth schemes in one line, though I'm not completely sure of that.
> But than, a preference for Digest would be nice and the HTTP header parser > should handle both cases (multiple WWW-Authenticate or one with multiple > challenges) correctly anyway. > > Given the difference between Basic and Digest, I do agree that we MUST prefer Digest over Basic if the option is provided. -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah
