AW: Mysql Driver failed on wamp5

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at laposte.net
Sat Dec 24 10:17:46 UTC 2005


>>on a windows based system with wamp (Windows Apache Mysql 
>>Php), I have tried to used the squeak mysql driver without 
>>success. The only error message I get is :
>>
>>'1251 Client does not support authentication protocol 
>>requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client'
>>    
>>
>
>You probably use MySQL 4.1 or newer?
>Then you should follow the instructions noted on this site:
>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html
>
>The reason why you get this error is that MySQL changed the authentication
>protocol as of version 4.1.1. Concretely, they use a new password hashing
>mechanism, now passwords are 41 bytes long instead of 16 bytes...
>The Squeak MySQL driver uses apparently still the old authentication
>protocol used in MySQL 3.23 or 4.0.
>
>This is the same problem you get when using the standard mysql extension of
>PHP instead of the new one, called mysqli (mysql improved).
>  
>
You are perfectly right, thank you.



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