On 19/11/05, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:16 +0000, sebb wrote:
> > On 19/11/05, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 15:44 +0000, sebb wrote:
> > > > On 19/11/05, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Hello Karl,
> > > > >
> > > > > Here's the relevant differences between HTTP requests generated using
> > > > > 3.0rc3 and 3.0rc4 [1]. The only significant variation I can spot is 
> > > > > that
> > > > > qop and nc attributes generated by rc4 are not enclosed in quotes. 
> > > > > This
> > > > > change has been introduced in 3.0rc4 per bug report 36372 [2], which 
> > > > > was
> > > > > perfectly valid in my opinion. See the original original discussion 
> > > > > here
> > > >
> > > > Bug report 36372 only refers to nc, surely, not qop?
> > > >
> > > > > [3]. What is actually really fishy here is that the digest challenge
> > > >
> > > > Note that qop is quoted.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi Sebastian,
> > >
> > > This is how I read the spec [1]
> > >
> > > The qop attribute of the digest challenge must be enclosed in quotes
> > > because it can have multiple comma separated values
> > >
> > > <quote>
> > >       challenge        =  "Digest" digest-challenge
> > > ...
> > >       qop-options       = "qop" "=" <"> 1#qop-value <">
> > >       qop-value         = "auth" | "auth-int" | token
> > > </quote>
> > >
> > > Whereas the qop attribute of the digest response implies only one value
> > > and therefore it does not have to be enclosed in quotes unless it
> > > contains any special characters such as blanks or commas
> > >
> > > <quote>
> > >        credentials      = "Digest" digest-response
> > > ...
> > >        message-qop      = "qop" "=" qop-value
> > > </quote>
> >
> > <quote>
> > qop .......
> >             Note
> >      that this is a single token, not a quoted list of alternatives as
> >      in WWW- Authenticate.
> > </quote>
> >
> > The description to me is a bit ambiguous - it does not say clearly
> > whether or not the token includes quotes.
> >
>
> Sebastian,
>
> I think there's no ambiguity. The syntax rules are very clearly laid out
> in the HTTP spec [1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
>
> > Which further says:
> >
> > 3.2.2.1 Request-Digest
> >
> >    If the "qop" value is "auth" or "auth-int":
> >
> >       request-digest  = <"> < KD ( H(A1),     unq(nonce-value)
> >                                           ":" nc-value
> >                                           ":" unq(cnonce-value)
> >                                           ":" unq(qop-value)
> >                                           ":" H(A2)
> >                                   ) <">
> >
> > To me, this suggests that qop-value, nonce-value and cnonce-value are
> > quoted, whereas nc-value is not.
> >
>
> I respectfully disagree. In the HTTP spec quote marks are always
> designated as <">. See request-digest in the example above

I can't find qop-value defined anywhere as a quoted string, but nor
can I find it defined as a non-quoted string.

But why does the RFC use the unq() function on qop-value unless it is
a quoted string?

There are some other examples of the use of unq() - e.g. realm-value -
in each case all of the operands are defined as being quoted strings.

>
> > We know nonce-value is a quoted string, and cnonce-value = nonce-value.
> >
> > ==
> >
> > What I'm suggesting is to try quoting just the "qop" value, and see if
> > that works for Karl.
> >
> > Then check if it all still works for the originator of bug 36372, who
> > only mentioned a problem with "nonce-count" in the original bug text.
> >
>
> Makes sense to me
>
> Oleg
>
> [1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
>
> > S.
> >
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