On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Jalali, Alex wrote:
> Hi, Is this is a bug with tomcat or adobe Acrobat in digest auth?

I suppose neither. The real is clear text.

> But adobe Acrobat (using its upload review tool to publish to a webdav
> server) returns with a response header that has, I guess encrypted the
> realm name like this
>  
> >>> Authorization: Digest username="user",
> realm=""f6b755878fd52d631b890b"" .......

I suppose(!) that they are just sending a random value (looks like an
MD5 of something). It ensures that the browser will prompt for a
password every time.

But this is just a wild guess.

Bye,

Tino.


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