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Bug 588660 - Accept authentication challenge without realm
Accept authentication challenge without realm
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libsoup
Classification: Core
Component: Misc
2.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: libsoup-maint@gnome.bugs
libsoup-maint@gnome.bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-15 14:04 UTC by Arnout Vandecappelle
Modified: 2018-09-21 16:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Accept authentication challenge without any parameters, not even realm (1.46 KB, patch)
2009-07-15 14:30 UTC, Arnout Vandecappelle 		none Details | Review

Description Arnout Vandecappelle 2009-07-15 14:04:53 UTC 
I have a stupid IP camera from Arecont that gives the following reply on an unauthenticated request:

HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized\r\n
WWW-Authenticate: Basic\r\n
<EOF>

Since the WWW-Authenticate challenge doesn't contain any parameters (not even the required realm parameter), libsoup doesn't accept it as a challenge.

Patch follows.
Comment 1 Arnout Vandecappelle 2009-07-15 14:30:21 UTC 
Created attachment 138449 [details] [review]
Accept authentication challenge without any parameters, not even realm

This patch is not very good, because it leaves realm unset and doesn't call auth->update, which may skip some required initialization.  It does work for basic authentication, though.
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2015-02-10 11:57:50 UTC 
[mass-moving all "UNCONFIRMED" libsoup bugs to "NEW" after disabling the "UNCONFIRMED" status for this product now that bugzilla.gnome.org allows that. bugspam-libsoup-20150210]
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-09-21 16:02:50 UTC 
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