authentication: basic and digest

hello (i keep getting a message that my account is suspended, but i have sent about 3 messages to this list, all about SOAP, so im not too sure what i have done!) Im doing well so far, i fixed the digest problem, just was something i was doing wrong at the time. My next question is to do with HTTP Digest authentication and Basic Authentication. What im trying to do is contrast the differences between using the two. The user selects if they want "basic" or "digest" authentication, and just sticking both methods in an If statement and executing one or the other authentication method depending on which the user selects. So far basic authentication works, but i cannot seem to use digest authentication. Im just following the samples from the php manual but digest auth doesnt seem to want to work: http://de3.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php to put it in pseudo so you can see what im getting at: RESET all session variables IF digestAuth { do digest authentication } ELSE { do Basic Authentication } Any ideas? if it was the header i would be suprised seing as though the header info for Basic Auth works ok. At the moment it goes to the 401 error at the first die message. Laura