FW: detecting authentication method

[Scott Battaglia]

Are you trying to protect a web service with CAS?

-Scott

On 8/25/06, Henrik Genssen <henrik.genssen at mediafactory.de> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I was wrong - shoud be:
> WWW-Authenticate: CAS 3.0
>
> like it is for basic:
> WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="abcdefg"
>
> or should one build a list for non-browser User-Agents to send those a 401
> result with the above header instead of redirecting?
>
> -- Hinnack
>
>
> >forward of message:
> >date: 24.08.2006 22:34:05
> >from: "Henrik Genssen" <henrik.genssen at mediafactory.de>
> >to: cas at tp.its.yale.edu
> >subject: detecting authentication method
> >
> >how does a non webbrowser application (e.g. a XML-RPC-Client) detect the
> auth-method automaticly?
> >
> >maybe sadding the authentication-header you normally get on a 401 result
> to the 30x result?
> >
> >- Hinnack
> >
> >
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