Digest Authentication with Internet Explorer possible?

Is this still broken in IE?

[dkubb]

I was just wondering if anyone knew if Digest Authentication can be made to work with Internet Explorer? (Using Apache 2.x)

It's my understanding that IE only supports a proprierary form of Digest Auth that isn't compatible with the W3C standard form that Apache provides.

For as long as I can remember Apache's Digest auth has been discouraged unless you are certain you don't need to support IE browsers (like in an intranet). I read somewhere that this may have changed recently, but I cannot find any definitive answers.

[dkubb]

I found a link in the Apache 2.0 mod_auth_digest documentation that mentions a workaround for IE appeared in Apache 2.0.51: (Scroll down to the section titled "Working with MS Internet Explorer")

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It says to add the following to your Apache configuration to make Digest auth work with IE:

BrowserMatch "MSIE" AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On

I don't know if this resolves *all* the issues with Internet Explorer and Digest Auth though, but I'd love to hear feedback on anyone successfully using this in a production system.