When using HTTP Digest Authentication, Safari warns "Your password will be sent in the clear" which is not a true statement. This is problematic because it makes a login that is (more or less) secure seem very insecure to the user. If you want a quick way to setup HTTP Digest Authentication, phpMyID uses it. Otherwise, Apache has mod_auth_digest which is also easy to setup. @see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID/ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html#digest
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This issue is not in WebKit, but the CFNetwork framework that WebKit uses for network communication. It was fixed in Mac OS X 10.5. Closing bug as INVALID to indicate that the bug is outside of WebKit.