I have a site that needs to pull information from another listing site (this is a real estate site that pulls data from a server and yes I have permission to pull data and no the companies involved have offered no help in resolving this issue).
Now, the site I am connecting to uses digest authentication, which I am mostly oblivious to. As I understand it the process goes like this:
1. Request is issued to site
2. Site issues a 401 Not Authorized (in the authorization header is a nonce and opague value)
3. Requesting site is to the use nonce and opague to md5 hash password and return to site
4. Site reads encrypted data and allows access.
Now my problem arises here. When I right my code to access the site and initiate this 401, my code breaks out here and I cannot continue. Thus I cannot retrieve the nonce and opague keys and thus cannot hash them and continue.
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