Problems with Digest HTTP authentication

[anonymous]

Hello,

Will this ever be fixed? I have many users and switching to Basic HTTP authentication would be a long process.

Problems with Digest HTTP authentication

The xmlrpclib.ServerProxy client - as demonstrated in the following examples - will
 not work with a Digest-based HTTP authentication: you need to set up a Basic HTTP
 authentication on server side to make the examples work.

If you use the standalone Trac daemon, this means that you cannot use the tracd -a 
option (htdigest authentication file). Use trac --basic-auth (htpasswd authentication
 file) instead.

[osimons]

No, it won't be fixed. The reason is that it has nothing at all to do with the XmlRpcPlugin - it is purely restrictions in the CLIENT you are using (xmlrpclib.ServerProxy). That client, and many others, seems to be happy to settle for basic-auth only support. It's a shame, but that is beyond what I can influence.

Feel free to make a custom client that communicates its XML or JSON to the server as it sees fit - it is for instance what we do in the Bitten project where we have a build slave that communicates with a Trac handler and it can handle Basic, Digest or even AccountManagerPlugin forms login with session handling. Bitten communicates using custom XML over HTTP, but the general idea would be the same for a custom RPC client.

See ​slave.py for example client code from the Bitten project.

[anonymous]

Thank you for your answer and help.