Re: [#177] Realm required on challenges

Thomas Broyer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Adrien de Croy wrote:
>   
>> I question the validity of requiring that realm be a parameter of every
>> (even new) scheme that has a challenge.
>>
>> I've never seen a browser use the realm for anything other than a label in a
>> dialog box either.
>>     
>
> Plain wrong!
>
> See http://ltgt.net/tests/http-auth-realm/
>
>   
OK. Glad to be wrong on that count.

One thing, since most of my experience is associated with proxies.  What 
is the realm supposed to be set for when authenticating to a proxy that 
uses the same credentials for all sites.

Regards

Adrien

> I tested it in IE8, Firefox 3.5, Opera 9.64, Safari 4 and Chrome
> 3.0.191.3 (Dev channel), all on Windows.
> Only Chrome fails the test and do not ask for your credentials when
> going from Foo to Bar the first time; all others take the realm into
> account when storing the credentials for use in subsequent requests;
> realm is not just a label in a dialog box.
>
>   

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