- From: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:33:13 +0100
- To: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@Sun.COM>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Apps Discuss <discuss@apps.ietf.org>
Chris Newman wrote: > Here's my take as AD on some of the interesting topics in this thread: > > 1. HTTP Digest Authentication > > The SASL WG appears to have decided that SASL DIGEST-MD5 is not a > useful authentication mechanism for a number of technical reasons. I > would be uncomfortable having a WG spend a lot of time refining the > existing HTTP Digest mechanism based on that experience. Indeed. But I think it might be worth just doing a revision of HTTP Basic, in particular to addresas i18n. I haven't yet made up my mind on whether this should happen in the HTTPbis or in another HTTPauth WG. > However, documenting the i18n behavior of deployed implementations > sounds like a sensible thing to do.
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