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Re: [hybi] Authentication headers

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Thu, 22 July 2010 01:03 UTC

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On 22 July 2010 10:07, Wellington Fernando de Macedo <
wfernandom2004@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Also, it isn't true. Again, all available Mozilla's http authentication
> (like digest) work with websocket.
>
> Well, I said something wrong... Actually digest with websockets just works
> when connecting to the proxy.
> Sorry.
>

It might happen to work, but according to the current specification it
should not work because:

 a) the additional headers required are not allowed
 b) the response challenge with the nonce is not allowed

of course browsers already have all this machinery implemented, so I would
not be surprised if it inadvertently worked .

cheers

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