Backport 600245 (AuthDigestQueryStringHack for MSIE7)

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x@600249 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml
index 4b8575ac6e668ef64cda14104f385c39d08480ba..edd5195adc169ae1f3c4021aee46f30c57f4f6f9 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml
@@ -85,10 +85,10 @@
 </section>
 
 <section id="msie"><title>Working with MS Internet Explorer</title>
-    <p>The Digest authentication implementation in current Internet
-    Explorer implementations has known issues, namely that <code>GET</code>
-    requests with a query string are not RFC compliant.  There are a
-    few ways to work around this issue.</p>
+    <p>The Digest authentication implementation in previous Internet
+    Explorer for Windows versions (5 and 6) had issues, namely that
+    <code>GET</code> requests with a query string were not RFC compliant.
+    There are a few ways to work around this issue.</p>
 
     <p>
     The first way is to use <code>POST</code> requests instead of
@@ -101,13 +101,16 @@
     <code>AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack</code> environment variable.
     If <code>AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack</code> is set for the
     request, Apache will take steps to work around the MSIE bug and
-    remove the request URI from the digest comparison.  Using this
+    remove the query string from the digest comparison.  Using this
     method would look similar to the following.</p>
 
     <example><title>Using Digest Authentication with MSIE:</title>
     BrowserMatch "MSIE" AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On
     </example>
 
+    <p>This workaround is not necessary for MSIE 7, though enabling it does
+    not cause any compatibility issues or significant overhead.</p>
+
     <p>See the <directive module="mod_setenvif">BrowserMatch</directive>
     directive for more details on conditionally setting environment
     variables</p>