Hi all, I've got a very simple HTML proxy server to access the web from my cell phone (based on this code: http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/python/proxy/). It's a very retarded phone that freezes if there's no Content-Length header and some other circumstances, so I have to tweak and modify the headers received slightly. But it works quite well with these hacks.
Now I'd like to add proxy authentication so that I'm not running this open proxy all the time. I would like to use Digest authentication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication) rather than Basic authentication so as not to expose any plaintext password. It appears that there are plenty of Python libraries to do the *client* side of the authentication (e.g. urllib2) but I have not found much code that does the *server* side of the authentication. That is, I am looking for code to generate the WWW-Authentication header (including appropriate nonce and opaque string) and to verify the Authorization header sent by the client when it retries. It does not look *too* hard to implement, but it does involve crypto and I'd just as soon use some tried-and-true code rather than roll my own in this case. Does anyone have any suggestions of where to find such code? Thanks! Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
