Rob Wilkerson wrote: > > I'm trying to retrieve an RSS feed from an Apache web server. The > feed is secured by htdigest authentication. My CFHTTP call is failing > even with the username and password I'm passing (which are correct). > In reading the docs, I can see that this method of using cfhttp only > supports basic authentication so I'm wondering: > > 1. What exactly is the difference between basic auth and htdigest?
See RFC 2617. >2. Is there any way to access these feeds via cfhttp? I think you can roll your own authentication mechanism. When the request fails, do you have access to the structure with HTTP headers and do you see a WWW-Authenticate header? If so, you can use that to calculate the right hash and do a new cfhttp call with the hash in the header. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:255378 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
