-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Micah Cowan wrote: > Mauro Tortonesi wrote: >> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:33:35 -0700 Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: > >> i am not so sure this is a critical point. as hrvoje pointed out, >> basic authentication is definitely the most used authentication >> mechanism on the web, so changing the current policy to perform >> digest authentication first and use basic authentication as a >> failover might result in a perfomance penalty. > > It will absolutely result in a (small: one per host?) performance > penalty.
To be clearer: if the authentication mechanism ends up being Basic, it could probably be one-per-host. Obviously, if the server requests Digest, it will be per-request. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGgqIA7M8hyUobTrERCMshAJ0bWbK66JW6FluB1hdehbDetcQ1vgCfe00w fgX8E/Wc+zMFCtcJrHk54Fc= =FXxw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
