Sorry for my late reply, Henrik. I want to be able to use an empty realm because we use Digest Auth in conjunction with an LDAP backend. In this LDAP backend the admin can specifiy combinations of <realm>:<password> or <realm>:<H(A1)>. The empty realm would thus lead to either <password> or <H(A1)> standing by themselves. We want to support this latter case as well and the empty realm would make that a lot easier. Regards, Khaled 2010/6/22 Henrik Nordström <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > tis 2010-06-22 klockan 00:22 +0200 skrev Khaled Blah: >> That's not completely true. RFC 2617 states that the realm of either >> digest/basic auth is a quoted string but it doesn't say that this >> string has to be a minimum number of characters. > > True, but is clearly not the intention that this should be empty. > > I asked why you want to use an empty realm. > > Regards > Henrik > >