- Internet Explorer had a broken HTTP digest authentication before v7 and

there are servers "out there" that relies on the client doing this broken
  Digest authentication. Apache even comes with an option to work with such
  broken clients.

  The difference is only for URLs that contain a query-part (a '?'-letter and
  text to the right of it).

  libcurl now supports this quirk, and you enable it by setting the
  CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE bit in the bitmask you pass to the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH or
  CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH options. They are thus individually controlled to server
  and proxy.

CHANGES

@@ -6,6 +6,22 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (11 Dec 2008)
+- Internet Explorer had a broken HTTP digest authentication before v7 and
+  there are servers "out there" that relies on the client doing this broken
+  Digest authentication. Apache even comes with an option to work with such
+  broken clients.
+
+  The difference is only for URLs that contain a query-part (a '?'-letter and
+  text to the right of it).
+
+  libcurl now supports this quirk, and you enable it by setting the
+  CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE bit in the bitmask you pass to the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH or
+  CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH options. They are thus individually controlled to server
+  and proxy.
+
+  (note that there's no way to activate this with the curl tool yet)
+
 Daniel Fandrich (9 Dec 2008)
 - Added test cases 1089 and 1090 to test --write-out after a redirect to
   test a report that the size didn't work, but these test cases pass.

RELEASE-NOTES

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Curl and libcurl 7.19.3
 
 This release includes the following changes:
 
- o 
+ o CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE bit added for CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH and CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 

docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 .\" * $Id$
 .\" **************************************************************************
 .\"
-.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "28 Oct 2008" "libcurl 7.19.1" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "11 Dec 2008" "libcurl 7.19.3" "libcurl Manual"
 .SH NAME
 curl_easy_setopt \- set options for a curl easy handle
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -661,6 +661,13 @@ others.
 HTTP Digest authentication.  Digest authentication is defined in RFC2617 and
 is a more secure way to do authentication over public networks than the
 regular old-fashioned Basic method.
+.IP CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE
+HTTP Digest authentication with an IE flavor.  Digest authentication is
+defined in RFC2617 and is a more secure way to do authentication over public
+networks than the regular old-fashioned Basic method. The IE flavor is simply
+that libcurl will use a special "quirk" that IE is known to have used before
+version 7 and that some servers require the client to use. (This define was
+added in 7.19.3)
 .IP CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE
 HTTP GSS-Negotiate authentication. The GSS-Negotiate (also known as plain
 \&"Negotiate") method was designed by Microsoft and is used in their web

include/curl/curl.h

@@ -474,8 +474,9 @@ typedef enum {
 #define CURLAUTH_DIGEST       (1<<1)  /* Digest */
 #define CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE (1<<2)  /* GSS-Negotiate */
 #define CURLAUTH_NTLM         (1<<3)  /* NTLM */
-#define CURLAUTH_ANY ~0               /* all types set */
-#define CURLAUTH_ANYSAFE (~CURLAUTH_BASIC)
+#define CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE    (1<<4)  /* Digest with IE flavour */
+#define CURLAUTH_ANY (~CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE)  /* all fine types set */
+#define CURLAUTH_ANYSAFE (~(CURLAUTH_BASIC|CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE))
 
 #define CURLSSH_AUTH_ANY       ~0     /* all types supported by the server */
 #define CURLSSH_AUTH_NONE      0      /* none allowed, silly but complete */

lib/http_digest.c

@@ -356,7 +356,25 @@ CURLcode Curl_output_digest(struct connectdata *conn,
     5.1.1 of RFC 2616)
   */
 
-  md5this = (unsigned char *)aprintf("%s:%s", request, uripath);
+  /* So IE browsers < v7 cut off the URI part at the query part when they
+     evaluate the MD5 and some (IIS?) servers work with them so we may need to
+     do the Digest IE-style. Note that the different ways cause different MD5
+     sums to get sent.
+
+     Apache servers can be set to do the Digest IE-style automatically using
+     the BrowserMatch feature:
+     http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_auth_digest.html#msie
+
+     Further details on Digest implementation differences:
+     http://www.fngtps.com/2006/09/http-authentication
+  */
+  if(authp->iestyle && (tmp = strchr((char *)uripath, '?'))) {
+    md5this = (unsigned char *)aprintf("%s:%.*s", request,
+                                       (int)(tmp - (char *)uripath), uripath);
+  }
+  else
+    md5this = (unsigned char *)aprintf("%s:%s", request, uripath);
+
   if(!md5this) {
     free(ha1);
     return CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY;

lib/url.c

@@ -1319,6 +1319,16 @@ CURLcode Curl_setopt(struct SessionHandle *data, CURLoption option,
      */
   {
     long auth = va_arg(param, long);
+
+    /* the DIGEST_IE bit is only used to set a special marker, for all the
+       rest we need to handle it as normal DIGEST */
+    data->state.authhost.iestyle = (auth & CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE)?TRUE:FALSE;
+
+    if(auth & CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE) {
+      auth |= CURLAUTH_DIGEST; /* set standard digest bit */
+      auth &= ~CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE; /* unset ie digest bit */
+    }
+
     /* switch off bits we can't support */
 #ifndef USE_NTLM
     auth &= ~CURLAUTH_NTLM; /* no NTLM without SSL */
@@ -1354,6 +1364,15 @@ CURLcode Curl_setopt(struct SessionHandle *data, CURLoption option,
      */
   {
     long auth = va_arg(param, long);
+
+    /* the DIGEST_IE bit is only used to set a special marker, for all the
+       rest we need to handle it as normal DIGEST */
+    data->state.authproxy.iestyle = (auth & CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE)?TRUE:FALSE;
+
+    if(auth & CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE) {
+      auth |= CURLAUTH_DIGEST; /* set standard digest bit */
+      auth &= ~CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE; /* unset ie digest bit */
+    }
     /* switch off bits we can't support */
 #ifndef USE_NTLM
     auth &= ~CURLAUTH_NTLM; /* no NTLM without SSL */

lib/urldata.h

@@ -1139,7 +1139,8 @@ struct auth {
                  request */
   bool multi; /* TRUE if this is not yet authenticated but within the auth
                  multipass negotiation */
-
+  bool iestyle; /* TRUE if digest should be done IE-style or FALSE if it should
+                   be RFC compliant */
 };
 
 struct conncache {