Re: Re: Digest Authentication

Hello, On 08/22/2002 04:28 PM, Chris Shiflett wrote:

I think he means what he says - digest authentication. NTLM authentication is a Microsoft thing and as such is supported by Microsoft products and pretty much no one else.

That is very wrong. NTLM is based on exchanging digest messages. It is not supported just by Microsoft products. There is even an Apache NTLM authentication module for Unix/Linux. Mozilla/Netscape 6/7 support NTLM. So, as you may see this is not just a Microsoft thing, regardless if this is what the original poster meant. Anyway, PHP is not an anti-Microsoft thing regardless what some PHP users or developers think. PHP has a lot to gain in working with Microsoft products because many users have choosen such products, whether you like it or not. As a matter of fact, in a recent poll that is still running, 53% of the inquired develoipers use Windows as their production environment to run PHP applications. In some countries the rate is even much higher. There is a great demand for NTLM authentication among Windows PHP users because that lets user login in Web applications without having to enter their credentials again after already having done so in the Windows logon. That is why I asked if was that the orginal poster could be asking. I do not use or recommend Windows, but I wish some PHP people stop being so stupidly against Microsoft products because that is like shooting yourself in the feet as more and more of the remaining PHP jobs are Windows based. Manuel Lemos

Manuel Lemos wrote:

Hello, On 08/22/2002 01:29 PM, Seairth Jacobs wrote:

I am having trouble finding working examples of HTTP Digest Authentication, esp. in PHP. Doe anyone have any links or code they can share? Also, I know that not all browsers support it or have incompatible support. Does anyone have a list of which browsers support what authentication schemes?

Do you mean NTLM authentication?