At 09:48 PM 10/11/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Ah! > >I finally got it working! You know what the problem was? Apparently the >algorithm was fine, but your answer took out one issue that I didn't have >to worry about... However, it triggered another issue that I never >thought about... > >Hashing lowercase hex is all good.. But also I have to return the final >hash result in lowercase back to the server... Apparently, the server will >not lowercase it first before starting to apply the hash.. > >I lowercased the final hash and sent it back to the server and it accepted it! > >So just curious, should the server side at least implement a function such >that the returned hash should be case insensitive rather than case >sensitive? (And probably mention this in the JEP too)... I think the >server should accomodate this and lowercase the authentication hash >received from the client before hashing.. > >What do you think?
I would agree. Hex numbers are (should be) case insensitive. if the server can't accept upper case hex numbers I think it is a server bug. -iain _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
