On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:22 -0400, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> hmm, I guess this fell off the collective radar.
> 
> any comments?  otherwise, I guess it's good enough and I'll just commit it
> to both 2.0 and 2.1.

Looks good to me.

-Paul Querna


> Geoffrey Young wrote:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> >>pquerna     2004/07/10 00:47:23
> >>
> >>  Modified:    .        Tag: APACHE_2_0_BRANCH CHANGES STATUS
> >>               modules/aaa Tag: APACHE_2_0_BRANCH mod_auth_digest.c
> >>  Log:
> >>  Backport of AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack
> >>  Needs a doc update to explain what it does.
> > 
> > 
> > something like the attached?  corrections, tweaks, or other feedback welcome.
> > 
> > --Geoff
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Index: mod_auth_digest.xml
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-2.0/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml,v
> > retrieving revision 1.5.2.8
> > diff -u -r1.5.2.8 mod_auth_digest.xml
> > --- mod_auth_digest.xml     17 Apr 2004 18:43:37 -0000      1.5.2.8
> > +++ mod_auth_digest.xml     12 Jul 2004 14:16:11 -0000
> > @@ -72,7 +72,9 @@
> >      browsers. As of November 2002, the major browsers that support digest
> >      authentication are <a href="http://www.opera.com/";>Opera</a>, <a
> >      href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/";>MS Internet
> > -    Explorer</a> (fails when used with a query string), <a
> > +    Explorer</a> (fails when used with a query string - see the
> > +    <directive module="mod_auth_digest">AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack
> > +    </directive> option below for a workaround), <a
> >      href="http://www.w3.org/Amaya/";>Amaya</a>, <a
> >      href="http://www.mozilla.org";>Mozilla</a> and <a
> >      href="http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp";
> > @@ -81,6 +83,36 @@
> >      in controlled environments.</p>
> >      </note>
> >  </section>
> > +
> > +<section id="msie"><title>Working with MS Internet Explorer</title>
> > +    <p>The Digest authentication implementation in current Internet
> > +    Explorer implementations has known issues, namely that <code><GET</code>
> > +    requests with a query string are not RFC compliant.  There are a
> > +    few ways to work around this issue.</p>
> > +
> > +    <p>
> > +    The first way is to use <code>POST</code> requests instead of
> > +    <code>GET</code> requests to pass data to your program.  This method
> > +    is the simplest approach if your application can work with this
> > +    limitation.
> > +    </p>
> > +
> > +    <p>Apache also provides a workaround in the
> > +    <code>AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack</code> environment variable.
> > +    If <code>AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack</code> is true for the
> > +    request, Apache will take steps to work around the MSIE bug and
> > +    remove the request URI from the digest comparison.  Using this
> > +    method would look like similar to the following.</p>
> > +
> > +    <example><title>Using Digest Authentication with MSIE:</title>
> > +    BrowserMatch "MSIE" AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On
> > +    </example>
> > +
> > +    <p>See the <directive module="mod_setenvif">BrowserMatch</directive>
> > +    directive for more details on conditionally setting environment
> > +    variables</p>
> > +</section>
> > +
> >  
> >  <directivesynopsis>
> >  <name>AuthDigestFile</name>

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