Re: outstanding issues: what's happening?

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Dave Kristol wrote:

> This mailing list has been pretty quiet.  I posed a bunch of questions
> over the past month or so, but I haven't seen resolutions.  I'll
> summarize:
> 
> 1) <http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1998q2/0031.html>
> 
> (Digest)
> a) No definition for non-terminal request-digest.

Should be
     request-digest    = <"> *LHEX <">

> b) In Authorization, the client can omit cnonce=.  If qop=auth-int
> and cnonce is omitted, should Authentication-Info in the server's
> response say 'cnonce=""', or should cnonce be omitted there, too?
> 

It should be illegal to omit cnonce with qop=auth-int

> 2) <http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1998q2/0035.html>
> 
> Recommending that the (Digest) nonce include Etag seems like a bad
> idea -- it makes the nonce non-reusable for other entities.
> 

A note should say that ETag should only be used with one-time nonces.

> 3) <http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1998q2/0040.html>
> 
> (Digest) In a response that sends multipart/byteranges, does the
> digest-uri-value of A2 digest the MIME headers and separators?
> 

I would think yes.


Paul Leach is doing the editing of this.

John Franks
john@math.nwu.edu

Received on Wednesday, 13 May 1998 14:00:10 UTC