On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 at 22:09, Matthew John Cheetham via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > `authtype`:: > > Indicates the type of authentication scheme that should be used by Git. > Credential helpers may reply to a request from Git with this attribute, > such that subsequent authenticated requests include the correct > `Authorization` header. > If this attribute is not present, the default value is "Basic". > Known values include "Basic", "Digest", and "Bearer". > If an unknown value is provided, this is taken as the authentication > scheme for the `Authorization` header, and the `password` field is > used as the raw unencoded authorization parameters of the same header. Do you have an example using authtype=Digest? Would the helper populate the password field with the user's verbatim password or the Digest challenge response? Put another way, is the Digest challenge-response logic in Git (libcurl) or the helper? https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7616#section-3.4
