Comments on: Web Services Security – HTTP Digest Authentication without Active Directory

By: gregr

gregr — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:28:15 +0000

Arunav, as for credit to the digest authentication authors, I did link to the RFC on the IETF site; however, what you found here on my site was original content describing one way to implement digest auth.

You, on the other hand, copied my article word-for-word, removed the link to my site, changed the contact information to your own, and passed the article off as your own. Whether it was for public use, or only for your students, is irrelevant; it was still a violation of US copyright laws. I see from your LinkedIn profile you reside in India; a perusal of US/India copyright treaties indicates to me this was also a violation of Indian copyright law.

Thank you for removing it.

By: Arunav

Arunav — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:53:17 +0000

Hi Murki,
The page you are refering to was not meant for public access, (only accessible by my ex students). The error has been rectified, my apologies.
And it is one of the seventeen (17) different custom authentication examples in .net that is maintained at my server from different sources (that I don’t remember).
If you download the sample application from my site you will find it is a web project demonstrating implementation for custom authentication taking digest authentication as an example.
For the credit, digest authentication is invented by Senthil Sengodan and Tat Chan (and I don’t see any credit for them anywhere).

Lastly, referring me as “indian guy”, perhaps there is something you intend to suggest. I rather like being referred as a ordinary programmer/blogger with no specification for my nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, etc.
please do not devide the netizens.

By: murki

murki — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:29 +0000

Hi there! Great work, but I just wanted to let you know that your article has been ripped off, word-by-word (minus the credit that is) by this indian guy:
www. arunav. net/arunav/authentications/

By: Kalyan

Kalyan — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:03:23 +0000

Hi,

Please post some sample code that details how a web service consumer accesses a web service that uses the digest authentication model.