Digest access authentication support in Application Web Server and HTTP Client

[Biggeveen]

The Labview Web Services should support digest access authentication (RFC 2617) in stead of NI's own inventions NI Auth and NI API Key (the latter is broken in 10.0f2). Digest access authentication is becoming a standard and is intended to replace basic access authentication since it doesn't send passwords in plain text over the web. It is very useful for cases where HTTPS cannot be used, for example for performance or legal reasons.

Digest access authentication does not require Silverlight at the client side like NI Auth does - it requires only a recent browser. In this way the choice of HTTP clients is much less restricted and for example a cell phone can be used too.

It shouldn't be that difficult for NI to get this done, the webserver behind it already supports it. Of course the Labview HTTP Client should also support digest authentication.

[TCPlomp]

I think you can add Digest authentication to the LabVIEW HTTP client allready by adjusting the http header as requested.
Digest authentication software is available at LAVA.

Ton

[Darren]

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