[mb-devel] Using the Webservice Digest Authentication

[Matthias Friedrich]

On Tuesday, 2006-12-19, Paul Taylor wrote:
> Ok, set up new user on the test server, I assume the realm is still 
> musicbrainz.org not test.muiscbrainz.org, and tried out the Apache library
> and it is now attemping to do digest authentication, but failing, I post 
> the code and output just in case anyone has any ideas but I shall post 
> this at the Apache site.

The output looks good. You try to post, the server sends back a 401 with
a challenge, you post again with the requested digest. The problem seems
to be the data you send. One thing I noticed is that your client ID
doesn't follow the spec, so please correct that and try again.

Cheers,
	Matthias