>Could just use the apache http client library (i.e. make it a >dependency), which seems to support most of the extensions to the HTTP >protocols. >No point in duplicating code unnecessarily.
We don't want to create additional dependencies if we can avoid it. But I'm also not sure that it would meet our needs even if we did. This task refers to the creation of an implementation of pivot.web.Authentication that supports digest authentication (we currently only support BasicAuthentication). However, I'm sure there is existing code in one or more Apache projects that we could take advantage of and adapt to use in this class.
