Re: [Httpmail-devel] Re: Hotwayd

[Korwin S. <sm...@li...>]

okay, never mind... I understand how to authenticate with hotmail now... 
however I am running into memory allocation issues as well...

At 02:03 PM 5/3/2002 -0700, Korwin Smith wrote:
>Frank,
>Would you care to give any further details into your hack of hotwayd? I am 
>putting together a w2k service based on hotwayd and am, of course, running 
>into the same problems as everyone else. I would really like to see what 
>you have done to get it to work.
>
>thanks!
>korwin
>
>FROM: Frank de Lange
>DATE: 05/03/2002 06:18:02
>SUBJECT: [Httpmail-devel] Re: Hotwayd
>On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:43:31PM +0200, Uri Yanover wrote:
> > > I'm currently trying to teach hotwayd to authenticate only when 
> asked, and
> > to
> > the correct realm
> >
> > Hi, I'm trying to do the same. Any ideas so far?
> >
> > As to my personal findings, I'd come to notice that
> > when authenticating at Passport, Outlook Express
> > responds only to the _second_ authentication
> > request, which is in the form of a
> > WWW-Authorize request, not an Authenticate. In
> > addition, Outlook sets a certain cookie
> > (MSPPre=<EMAIL: PROTECTED>).
>
>Outlook only authenticates when explicitly asked to do so. This seems to be
>necessary for working with MS's httpmail implementation, since passport.com
>gives incorrect results when presented with authentication credits for the
>hotmail.com (instead of the passport.com) realm. I think it should refuse 
>those
>authentication tokens, and request new auth for the passport.com realm, but it
>doesn't. Instead, it produces a bogus redirect which sends hotwayd (and any
>other httpmail implementation which works like it, like the other 'httpmail'
>project) in a loop.
>
>The solution is to make sure hotwayd ONLY authenticates when the last reply
>requested to do so. This can be achieved by explicitly clearing the authtoken
>before doing anything. I hacked up the source to do so, and it DOES
>authenticate and find the folder list, but the program is crashing left and
>right on the errrr shall we say shaky memory allocation... Now testing with
>efence, to see where the bad stuff happens (all over the place, really)
>
>Cheers//Frank
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