On 11/23/05, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/23/05, Joshua Slive <jslive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Why is server startup blocked by that? > > > Can't server startup continue and all auth requests fail until there > > > are random bytes? > > > > I'd guess it would be much harder to impliment (would require > > dispatching a thread/process to wait on the random number generator) > > and wouldn't be what all admins would want anyway. > > Why would an admin prefer the entire server to block? If your site depends on digest auth, then you want to be confident that if apache says it started successfully, your site is going to work. Otherwise, you'd have to do detailed testing every time you restarted your server. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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