[Jim Chapman]

Hi,

I'm in the closing stages of building the Windows Phone 7 version of my book reader (Freda), and I'm just working on the Calibre Content Server integration.

It works fine if I don't set a password on the Content Server, but if I do set a password, it does not work. My code is doing the right thing, supplying a credentials object as required ... but I think the problem is the type of authentication. At the moment the Windows Phone 7 development tools only support 'Basic' HTTP Authentication; I wonder if perhaps the content server is insisting on 'Digest' HTTP Authentication. That is a feature that Microsoft, in their wisdom, have not (yet) provided on WP7.

Can someone familiar with the code tell me:
- Does the content server insist on Digest authentication and refuse to use Basic authentication? (by the way, I think this would be a reasonable thing to do; it is Microsoft who are being daft)
- Or is there some setting I can use to make the content server use Basic authentication?
- Or is my suspicion wrong? (which is to say that my problems are caused by something else, and I have more debugging to do)

By the way, I noticed some comments about authentication problems with Android software. I wonder whether this is a similar problem.

Any advice will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim