I had a look into the Eclair sources. It seems the available
algorithms are hard-coded in MessageDigest.java. So there is no way to
add another one without modifying the sources.
Can anyone tell me if it's correct to assume that the digest algorithm
is case-sensitive? Or is this a bug?

On 14 Mrz., 08:39, marten <marten.ga...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a CardDAV implementation for Android and came across some
> problem when trying to connect to the OSX/Darwin CardDAV server.
> The default setup for this server is to advertise BASIC and DIGEST
> authentication. The default algorithm for DIGEST authentication is set
> to "md5".
> Without changing the defaults I can not login to the server. I always
> get the following error in the logs:
>
> E/estTargetAuthentication( 2749): Authentication error: Unhandled
> algorithm md5 requested
>
> If I change "md5" to "MD5" in the server's configuration I can login
> to the server.
> In my opinion Android is right and it should be "MD5" instead of
> "md5". Nevertheless, is there any way to make Android's HTTP
> implementation more tolerant? Can I register "md5" as an
> implementation of MD5 somehow?
> I don't want to ask all OS X users to change the defaults ...
> especially since OS X users are used to "that it just works" ;-) .
>
> cheers
>
> Marten

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