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Posted to cvs@httpd.apache.org by nd...@apache.org on 2004/09/20 22:10:13 UTC
cvs commit: httpd-2.0/docs/manual/mod mod_auth_digest.html.en mod_auth_digest.xml.ko
nd 2004/09/20 13:10:13
Modified: docs/manual/mod mod_auth_digest.html.en
mod_auth_digest.xml.ko
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</code></p></div>
<div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
- <p>Digest authentication provides a more secure password system
- than Basic authentication, but only works with supporting
- browsers. As of November 2002, the major browsers that support digest
- authentication are <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a>, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/">MS Internet
- Explorer</a> (fails when used with a query string - see "<a href="#msie">Working with MS Internet Explorer</a>" below for a workaround), <a href="http://www.w3.org/Amaya/">Amaya</a>, <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a> and <a href="http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp">Netscape</a> since version 7. Since digest
- authentication is not as widely implemented as basic
- authentication, you should use it only in controlled environments.</p>
+ <p>Digest authentication is more secure than Basic authentication,
+ but only works with supporting browsers. As of September 2004, major
+ browsers that support digest authentication include <a href="http://www.w3.org/Amaya/">Amaya</a>, <a href="http://konqueror.kde.org/">Konqueror</a>, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/">MS Internet Explorer</a>
+ for Mac OS X and Windows (although the Windows version fails when
+ used with a query string -- see "<a href="#msie">Working with MS
+ Internet Explorer</a>" below for a workaround), <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a>, <a href="http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp">
+ Netscape</a> 7, <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a>, and <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a>. <a href="http://lynx.isc.org/">lynx</a> does <strong>not</strong>
+ support digest authentication. Since digest authentication is not as
+ widely implemented as basic authentication, you should use it only
+ in environments where all users will have supporting browsers.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<div class="section">
<h2><a name="msie" id="msie">Working with MS Internet Explorer</a></h2>
<p>The Digest authentication implementation in current Internet
- Explorer implementations has known issues, namely that <code>GET</code>
- requests with a query string are not RFC compliant. There are a
- few ways to work around this issue.</p>
+ Explorer for Windows implementations has known issues, namely that
+ <code>GET</code> requests with a query string are not RFC compliant.
+ There are a few ways to work around this issue.</p>
<p>
The first way is to use <code>POST</code> requests instead of
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="EUC-KR" ?>
<!DOCTYPE modulesynopsis SYSTEM "../style/modulesynopsis.dtd">
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../style/manual.ko.xsl"?>
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