On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 23:55, Dave Clements
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey with regard to multiple www-authentication headers, what use cases
> are there for that.
>
> would it be for, say, providing advanced digest authentication for IE
> followed by digest auth for all others?

Yes. For example, you can now talk to an IIS server that advertises
support for both NTLM* and Kerberos. Previously, you'd see one header
but not the other.

* Upgrading the connection to NTLM is left as an exercise to the reader.

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