Skip to Content
HTTP: The Definitive Guide
book

HTTP: The Definitive Guide

by David Gourley, Brian Totty, Marjorie Sayer, Anshu Aggarwal, Sailu Reddy
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
22h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from HTTP: The Definitive Guide

Reference Code

The following code implements the calculations of H(A1), H(A2), request-digest, and response-digest, from RFC 2617. It uses the MD5 implementation from RFC 1321.

File “digcalc.h”

#define HASHLEN 16
typedef char HASH[HASHLEN];
#define HASHHEXLEN 32
typedef char HASHHEX[HASHHEXLEN+1];
#define IN
#define OUT
/* calculate H(A1) as per HTTP Digest spec */
void DigestCalcHA1(
    IN char * pszAlg,
    IN char * pszUserName,
    IN char * pszRealm,
    IN char * pszPassword,
    IN char * pszNonce,
    IN char * pszCNonce,
    OUT HASHHEX SessionKey
    );

/* calculate request-digest/response-digest as per HTTP Digest spec */
void DigestCalcResponse(
    IN HASHHEX HA1,           /* H(A1) */
    IN char * pszNonce,       /* nonce from server */
    IN char * pszNonceCount,  /* 8 hex digits */
    IN char * pszCNonce,      /* client nonce */
    IN char * pszQop,         /* qop-value: "", "auth", "auth-int" */
    IN char * pszMethod,      /* method from the request */
    IN char * pszDigestUri,   /* requested URL */
    IN HASHHEX HEntity,       /* H(entity body) if qop="auth-int" */
    OUT HASHHEX Response      /* request-digest or response-digest */
    );

File “digcalc.c”

#include <global.h> #include <md5.h> #include <string.h> #include "digcalc.h" void CvtHex( IN HASH Bin, OUT HASHHEX Hex ) { unsigned short i; unsigned char j; for (i = 0; i < HASHLEN; i++) { j = (Bin[i] >> 4) & 0xf; if (j <= 9) Hex[i*2] = (j + '0'); else Hex[i*2] = (j + 'a' - 10); j = Bin[i] & 0xf; if (j <= 9) Hex[i*2+1] = (j + '0'); else Hex[i*2+1] = (j + 'a' - 10); }; Hex[HASHHEXLEN] = '\0'; }; /* calculate H(A1) as ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Kubernetes: Up and Running, 3rd Edition

Kubernetes: Up and Running, 3rd Edition

Brendan Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower, Lachlan Evenson
Spring Start Here

Spring Start Here

Laurentiu Spilca
Docker: Up & Running, 3rd Edition

Docker: Up & Running, 3rd Edition

Sean P. Kane, Karl Matthias

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 1565925092Errata Page