Digest WebDAV realms not accessable to Windows clients

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IE on Windows cannot authenticate to a secure WebDAV realm when the realm is configured to use Digest authentication. Basic authentication has always worked for us in the past, but clear-text passwords are a concern. Further, we’ve discovered that the newest version of Dreamweaver (CS3) cannot connect to a Basic secured realm, but can connect to a Digest secured realm. Can I tweak Apple’s WebDAV module to honor Digest requests from Windows clients?

IIS WebDAV module supposedly presents the same dilemma to Windows clients, but there are IIS tweaks to make it work:

http://www.webdavsystem.com/server/documentation/authentication

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It seems that something in WinXP SP2 broke digest authentication. It insists on sending credentials with the Windows domain prepended to the username (ie WORKGROUP\username). Nonetheless, I cannot even make this method work consistently.

As for the Dreamweaver CS3 problem connecting to Basic authenticated realms, there is a fix which worked for me.

http://www.adobe.com/go/kb402079

Thanks to Paul Suh (www.ps-enable.com) for these insights.

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