<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">There were various anecdotal reports that digest authentication</span><br>
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was broken in interesting ways on Android before 4.0.3. I would<br>
presume you (nominally) have 4.3 (or better :-), but if not, there<br>
you are. The reports indicated that proxies were often involved,<br>
and many mobile operators use proxies.<br>
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You might consider simplifying and just use basic auth with<br>
TLS for external access to your home server since you are<br>
still vulnerable to MITM attacks when using digest.<br><br></blockquote><div>Thanks Gary! Changing from Digest to Basic authentication seems to make it completely reliable for everything I've tried so far. BTW, I do indeed have 4.3 - no KitKat yet. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jim</div></div></div></div>