Re: a bit OT - Does XMLHTTP work with Digest Authentication?

On Dec 19, 2007 10:24 AM, Shu-Wai Chow <schow@macnexus.org> wrote: > I've been searching all over MSDN for this info, but can't find > anything. I have a script under a directory protected by HTTP Digest > authentication. This is an Apache server on Linux. > > When I try to access the script through ajax using the XMLHttpRequest > object, everything is fine in all browsers including IE 7, which uses > XMLHttpRequest. In IE 6 and below, using Microsoft.XMLHTTP, the > connection fails. HttpStatus returns an odd number (it's five digits) > and the responseText and responseXML properties are empty. > > I'm embedding the username and password according to the open() method spec: > > xmlhttp.open('GET', 'script/path', true, 'username', > 'password'); > > I originally wrote the responses and checks in PHP using the example > given in the HTTP Authentication section of the manual, but switched to > .htaccess, thinking it was a problem. It didn't help. However, when I > switched the AuthType to Basic, IE 6 worked fine. > > Does anyone have any experience using XMLHTTP with digest authentication > that can shed some light on this? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I've run into this problem before... Try searching Google with the five-digit status code. It's one of Microsoft's non-standard codes... -Casey