From: Igor Galić <igalic@apache.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 09:50:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: axe warnings about MSIE 5 and other dead browsers
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axe warnings about MSIE 5 and other dead browsers

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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml
index b10bfa2a051..df87588eba2 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml
@@ -71,60 +71,13 @@
 
     <note><title>Note</title>
     <p>Digest authentication is more secure than Basic authentication,
-    but only works with supporting browsers. As of September 2004, major
-    browsers that support digest authentication include <a
-    href="http://www.w3.org/Amaya/">Amaya</a>, <a
-    href="http://konqueror.kde.org/">Konqueror</a>, <a
-    href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/">MS Internet Explorer</a>
-    for Mac OS X and Windows (although the Windows version fails when
-    used with a query string -- see "<a href="#msie" >Working with MS
-    Internet Explorer</a>" below for a workaround), <a
-    href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a>, Netscape 7, 
-    <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a>, and <a
-    href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a>. <a
-    href="http://lynx.isc.org/">lynx</a> does <strong>not</strong>
-    support digest authentication. Since digest authentication is not as
-    widely implemented as basic authentication, you should use it only
-    in environments where all users will have supporting browsers.</p>
+    but only works with supporting browsers. As of this writing (December
+    2012) all major browsers support digest authentication.</p>
     <p><module>mod_auth_digest</module> only works properly on platforms
       where APR supports shared memory.</p>
     </note>
 </section>
 
-<section id="msie"><title>Working with MS Internet Explorer</title>
-    <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
-    <code>GET</code> requests to pass data to your program.  This method
-    is the simplest approach if your application can work with this
-    limitation.
-    </p>
-
-    <p>Since version 2.0.51 Apache also provides a workaround in the
-    <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 query string from the digest comparison.  Using this
-    method would look similar to the following.</p>
-
-    <example><title>Using Digest Authentication with MSIE:</title>
-    <highlight language="config">
-        BrowserMatch "MSIE" AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On
-    </highlight>
-    </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>
-</section>
-
 
 <directivesynopsis>
 <name>AuthDigestProvider</name>