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Digest, basic…. IE7?

May 12, 2007 in development, internet, python by jrbriggs | No comments

I’ve just discovered that my implementation of a Digest Authentication middleware for WSGI, which had been working perfectly with Firefox, fails miserably when I try it with IE.

A bit of googling finds the following…

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C1500432%2C00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,20373,00.asp

…making me think that I’m basically stuffed, despite the fact that I followed the RFC. Excellent work Microsoft! (Sarcasm alert!)

Should’ve done some reading first I think.

So now a decision. Persevere with digest auth and upgrade (irreversibly?) to IE7 in the vain hope that it works, or roll back to Basic auth which will obviously support more browsers.

Much as I’d like to stick with digest (and see if my implementation works in IE7), I think Basic auth is the safer option (at least coupled with SSL), particularly when you look at browser market share.

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