XML News from Saturday, January 10, 2004

As part of an ongoing discusion on xml-dev, I'm running a test of browser support HTTP digest authentication. So far, these are the results I've collected:

• Internet Explorer 6.0 Windows 2000: Works
• Internet Explorer 6.0, service pack 2, Windows XP.
• Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106, Windows XP SP2: Works
• Internet Explorer Version 5.50.4807.2300 on Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP4: Works
• Internet Explorer 5.00.3700, Windows 2000: Works
• Internet Explorer 5.0 on Windows 98SE, NT4, and 2000: Works
• Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98SE, NT4, and 2000: Works
• Internet Explorer 5.1.6 Mac OS 9: Works
• Internet Explorer 4.0.1 Mac OS 9: Works
• Internet Explorer 5.2 Mac OS X: Works
• Internet Explorer 4 on Windows XP Pro: Works (^*)
• Internet Explorer 5.00 on MS Windows 2000 SP4 Workstation: Works
• Internet Explorer 5.01 on Windows XP Pro: Works (^*)
• Internet Explorer 5.50.4807 SP2 on Windows2000: Works
• Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows XP Pro: Works (^*)
• Mozilla 1.6a on Windows XP Pro: Works
• Mozilla 1.5, Windows XP: Works
• Mozilla 1.5, Linux: Works
• Mozilla 1.4.1 Linux: Works
• Mozilla 1.4.1 Windows XP: Works
• Mozilla 1.4 Linux: Works
• Mozilla 1.4 on Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP4: Works
• Mozilla 1.3 Mac OS 9: Works
• Mozilla 1.2.1 Mac OS 9: Works
• Mozilla 1.1 Mac OS 9: Works
• Mozilla 1.0.2, Linux: Works
• Mozilla 1.0, Windows 98: Works
• Firebird 0.7 on Windows XP pro: Works
• Firebird 0.7, Windows SP4: Works
• Firebird 0.7, Mac OS X 10.3: Works
• Firebird 0.7 Linux i686 (SuSe 8.2)
• Firebird 0.6 (Platform?): Works
• Safari 1.1.1 Mac OS X 10.3: Works
• Safari 1.0 Mac OS X 10.2: Works
• Netscape 7.01 on Win2000: Works
• Netscape Communicator 6.2 Mac OS 9: Fails
• Netscape Communicator 4.8 on Windows XP Pro: Fails
• Netscape 4.79 on Windows XP Pro: Fails
• Netscape 4.78 on Windows 98SE: Fails
• Netscape 4.7 on Linux: Fails
• Netscape Communicator 4.75 Mac OS 9: Fails
• Opera 7.23 on Windows XP Pro: Works
• Opera 7.11 Windows: Works
• Opera 7.1, Windows XP home edition: Works
• Opera 7.01 on Windows XP pro: Works
• Opera 6.01 (German) on Windows XP Pro: Works
• Opera 6.0 Windows, build 1010, running on NT 4, SP6: Works
• Opera 5.0.485 Mac OS 9: Works
• Opera 5.0 on Windows XP Pro: Works
• Opera 3.62 on Windows XP Pro: Fails
• Omniweb 4.5 on OS X 10.3: Works
• Mozilla Firebird 0.7 for Windows: Works
• Lynx 2.8.5dev.7 character mode browser for Linux: Fails
• Lynx 2.8.3, Mac OS X: Fails
• Lynx 2.8.3, Windows XP Pro: Fails
• w3m version w3m/0.4.1-m17n-20030308 character mode browser for Linux: Fails
• links (aka Elinks) 0.4.2 character mode browser for Linux: Fails
• Amaya 6.0 on Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP4: Works
• Konqueror 3.14 on Linux 2.4.22 (Gentoo): Works
• Konqueror 1.3-13 on Red Hat 9.0: Works

^* This one needs confirmation. The correspondent has "an unconventional multi-version IE installation that makes exact version identification difficult and *may* (or may not) mean they're sharing some DLL's" I do now have one report of failure with IE 4.0 on Windows.

I'd like to get more results, particularly Opera versions prior to 5.0, Konqueror, Amaya, and Internet Explorer on Windows prior to 6.0. If you have these or any other browser not yet listed here, could you please go to http://elharo.com/staging/ and attempt to login with the user name "invited" and the password "test". Whether you succeed or fail, please e-mail me the results, along with the version, vendor, and platform of your browser. I don't really need any more results for Netscape 4.x and earlier. I'm pretty convinced those all fail (unless you find a version that works. That would be interesting.) Similarly I'm fairly sure Mozilla 1.0 and later all work. (Again, if you have evidence otherwise, please let me know.) Thanks.