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Re: Does CFHTTPMessageAddAuthentication support digest auth?
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Re: Does CFHTTPMessageAddAuthentication support digest auth?


  • Subject: Re: Does CFHTTPMessageAddAuthentication support digest auth?
  • From: "Quinn \"The Eskimo!\"" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:11:09 +0100

On 14 Jul 2015, at 18:40, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:

> ... it’s not possible to support HTTP digest auth in a WebSocket client (without implementing all of RFC2617 by hand), because one setter function in CFHTTPMessage’s API hasn’t been made public.

Correct.  [Well, we probably wouldn't make that exact routine public, but the functionality of that routine needs to be made public, yes.]

On the plus side, implementing Digest is pretty simple; think yourself lucky you're not implementing NTLM (-:

> And previous Radars about this, filed as long ago as 2007, have been rejected as “behaves correctly”.

AFAIK the bug for this is still active but I will check to make sure.

> Is there any use in me filing yet another Radar?

Absolutely.

Share and Enjoy
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Quinn "The Eskimo!"                    <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware



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 >Re: Does CFHTTPMessageAddAuthentication support digest auth? (From: "Quinn \"The Eskimo!\"" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Does CFHTTPMessageAddAuthentication support digest auth? (From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>)

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