On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 01:06, Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Joseph Tam wrote:

>> At the expense of sounding stupid, could you please expound on the
>> sequence? :)

If you want the nitty details

(Starting at bottom of page 18)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2831

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>

Thank you very very much!

I have now kind of understood what goes own. Initially, the server "has knowledge" of the credentials of the user.

It had to be in the RFC and those we always leave for 'others' to read :-)

Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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