Actually, Cyrus SASL now supports HTTP Digest via a flag. Sent from my iPhone On 1 Aug 2013, at 08:08, Phil Pennock <cyrus-sasl-phil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2013-07-31 at 17:07 +0200, Nil Croustillac wrote: >> It's been a while now I am trying to implement the Digest authentication >> with the Cyrus SASL library and I don't understand how to proceed. >> I am using the version 2.1.25 and only support digest mechanism, here is >> the desired behaviour (which doesn't work) > > HTTP does not use SASL as a framing layer. > > You want to read RFC 2617 which explains what goes into the headers at > each step, and implement based on that. There are definite similarities > between HTTP Digest Authentication and DIGEST-MD5 as used in SASL, but a > SASL library won't typically help with HTTP. > > You might try using libcurl instead? > > -Phil
