Login to reil.com
Monday, June 11th, 2007REIL.com uses digest authentication. I am using perl to pull down the data so first I need to login to the reil.com server with proper authorization. I was unable to find a lot of documentation on how this process works. The usual method for exposing web services is via SOAP, but this service uses HTTP Digest Authentication. I have not used it much but it appears that the main benefit is not sending the password in clear text over a non-ssl connection. It is not as secure as SSL by any means but is better than a clear text transmission of the password.
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