[Tickets #13831] Re: autodiscover.xml error code 401 Unauthorized

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Ticket URL: https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/13831
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  Ticket             | 13831
  Updated By         | Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
  Summary            | autodiscover.xml error code 401 Unauthorized
  Queue              | Synchronization
  Version            | FRAMEWORK_5_2
  Type               | Bug
-State              | Feedback
+State              | Not A Bug
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Michael Rubinsky
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Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org> (2015-02-05 14:31) wrote:

The way Autodiscovery works is that the client is *supposed* to send  
an XML data structure containing, among other things, the user's email  
address as part of the structure.

Some clients (from what I've seen, mostly Android) don't send ANY of  
this structure but instead pass the email address as the username in  
the HTTP_AUTHORIZATION header. This is outright incorrect, but we have  
code in place to attempt to catch this and try out best to get an  
accurate username from it. This is probably way your wget attempts  
(and other tests that were not sourced directly from an EAS client)  
worked.

If you want to provide a wiretrace, I'll take a look to be sure we  
can't improve the code, but otherwise, I'm closing this ticket.