Bug 477891

Summary:	Digest authentication failure
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	Dan Fandrich <dan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	montel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.24.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Flatpak
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Dan Fandrich 2023-12-02 07:18:37 UTC

SUMMARY
Accessing a feed on a lighttpd server protected with HTTP Digest authentication with algorithm=SHA-256 fails with a server error:

mod_auth.c.1334) digest: (a2ca643c55f46828b66002b5bed0e4e0): invalid format

akregator just silently fails to download the feed and shows the name in red.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Configure a feed served by a lighttpd server protected with SHA-256 Digest authentication
2. Try to "Fetch feed"

OBSERVED RESULT
No feed and a red feed name

EXPECTED RESULT
Feed contents available for browsing

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The protected RSS feed link can be accessed fine (including authentication) with Firefox, Chrome, curl and xh, so it's unlikely to be a server problem.
Running this from Flatpak will first hit #477889 before it gets to the point where this bug is encountered.

Comment 1 Dan Fandrich 2023-12-02 07:28:11 UTC

One thing I just noted: the other clients respond with 64 hexadecimal characters (i.e. 256 bits) in the "response" field of the Authorization: header, but akregator responds with 32 hex bytes (i.e. 128 bits). It doesn't look like Akregator is responding properly to an algorithm=SHA-256 authorization.

Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2023-12-02 08:07:10 UTC

Hi,
Do you have a test server ?
Regards.

Comment 3 Dan Fandrich 2023-12-02 08:32:18 UTC

Unfortunately, my server isn't public. I could probably come up with a dockerfile to run a local server if you'd like.

Comment 4 Dan Fandrich 2023-12-17 03:50:38 UTC

I traced the Akregator code and found that it seems to use the QtNetwork classes to perform HTTP requests. I created a standalone Qt application to perform a similar request and discovered that it truncates the response field to 128 bits as well. So, it seems to be a problem in Qt itself (I tried both 5.15.2 and 5.15.7).

Comment 5 Dan Fandrich 2023-12-17 04:06:25 UTC

For the record, the Qt issue seems to be https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-98280