Can I do "Digest Authentification"

[Dar Scott]

On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 10:04 AM, Alex Rice wrote:

> Use a terminal and a telnet program to experiment.

You can also use a packet sniffer such as Ethereal to look at the actual 
dialog of a program that does connect to the device already.  With 
Ethereal, you can focus in on that TCP connection and see the dialog.

Some network admins will think that mortals should not be using this 
method and others might become concerned, so you might want to check 
with the right folks before doing this.

Some packet sniffers are crippled and can only see traffic to and from 
the computer it is running on.  That may be all you need and that should 
be acceptable to net cops.  Also, it shouldn't take long to get a 
snapshot of the dialog, so it might be fastest to have a network admin 
type work with you or snag it for you.

If you can isolate the device and your test computer, that will work 
well, too.

Dar Scott
Some programmer guy near the upper Rio Grande