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[jira] Commented: (MODPYTHON-47) Digest Authorization header causes bad request error.
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-47?page=comments#action_63451 ]
Graham Dumpleton commented on MODPYTHON-47:
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This issue was also raised a few years ago on the mailing list. Relevant mailing list
post at the time with suggested fix was:
http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2002-September/013071.html
The suggested fix at the time was to set user,passwd to None,None with similar
check as initially suggested this time round.
In vampire::publisher where similar problem existed, was found to be better to
defer parsing of Authorization until determined it was needed though as it then
mean't you got a hard error if actually trying to use __auth__ or __access__ instead
of it being silently ignored. Ie., error would occur still where you were trying to
mix two different authorisation types.
> Digest Authorization header causes bad request error.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MODPYTHON-47
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-47
> Project: mod_python
> Type: Bug
> Components: publisher
> Versions: 3.1.4
> Reporter: Graham Dumpleton
> Priority: Minor
>
> If Apache is used to perform authentication, the Authorization header still gets
> passed through to mod_python.publisher. Unfortunately, mod_python.publisher
> authentication code in process_auth() will attempt to decode the contents of the
> Authorization header even if there are no __auth__ or __access__ hooks defined
> for authentication and access control within the published code itself.
> The consequence of this is that if Digest authentication is used for AuthType
> at level of Apache authentication, the process_auth() code will raise a bad request
> error as it assumes Authorization header is always in format for Basic authentication
> type and when it can't decode it, it raises an error.
> What should happen is that any decoding of Authorization should only be done
> if there is a __auth__ or __access__ hook that actually requires it. That way, if some
> one uses Digest authentication at Apache configuration file level, provided that no
> __auth__ or __access__ hooks are provided, there wouldn't be a problem.
> See:
> http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2005-April/017911.html
> http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2005-April/017912.html
> for additional information.
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