Re: Does CFHTTPMessageAddAuthentication support digest auth?
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.
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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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