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Digest Access Authentication (thing)

2005-01-10T13:41:38Z

One of the two ways a server can challenge a client in order to identify it. It does this by sending a "401 Unauthorized" response with a WWW-Authenticate header. The other one is the Basic Authentication Scheme, but the "digest" one is better because it doesn't send a plaint text password over the net. Both are defined in RFC 2617.

MD5-sess (thing)

2005-01-10T13:31:44Z

One of the authorisation algorithms defined for "digest access authentication" method in HTTP protocol by RFC 2617. The other is just "MD5". Both algorithms use the MD5 hash function.

libxml2 (thing)

2003-08-10T20:24:38Z

libxml2 it's a small and nice XML parser you can link to you programs. It will parse an XML file and build an in-memory tree with its content which you can access with a DOM like API. That's much more easier than using a simple event oriented parser (such as expat).

In addition it fully supports XML namespaces, XPath, XInclude, and most of XPointer and XML Schema.

It's been developed for use in the Gnome project, but it can be used by anyone. You can get it at http://xmlsoft.org/ .

Options (thing)

2001-08-17T03:23:45Z

An HTTP method which clients can use to get information about a server but without getting the content or causing any other effect. The URI can be an asterisk, and that means that que client is asking about the whole server, and not about a resource in particular. This method can be used to find out which things a server supports, e.g. if it supports HTTP/1.1.


$ telnet www.everything2.com 80
Trying 206.170.14.131...
Connected to www.everything2.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:20:39 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU mod_ssl/2.4.10 OpenSSL/0.9.4 mod_perl/1.21_03-dev
Content-Length: 0
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE
Connection: close

Connection closed by foreign host.
$ _

cimarrÃ³n (thing)

2001-07-07T19:13:32Z

In Argentina, a wild horse who wanders without being owned by anyone.

Also, when mate is drunk without sugar, it's called "cimarrÃ³n".

In the South of Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul state), they only drink mate without sugar and call it cimarrÃ£o.

Carlos Menem (person)

2001-07-07T06:51:31Z

Carlos Saul Menem governed Argentina for 10 years (since 1989). He's from the Peronist party and he has previously be the governor of La Rioja province. Under his goverment, Argentina's economy underwent deep changes, it was opened to this globalized world. His government will be remembered for his corruption. Currently, Carlos Menem if in jail (well, in home-arrest because he's over 70) for selling arms to Croatia and Ecuador with fake destinations.
He was followed in the presidency by Fernando de la Rua.