On 10/4/06, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Will do. > >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. Hmmm. Don't know that I need to do it quite *that* bad, but I appreciate the insight. If the powers that be decide this is a higher priority than I think it is, I just might have to do it this way. Thanks for your help. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:255443 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
