- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:42:54 +0100
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2011-11-08 22:37, Julian Reschke wrote: > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/321>: > > We need to add a statement about what it means if a specific auth-param > occurs more than once in a challenge; in particular for "realm" (ack > James Manger) > > Proposed change: > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/321/321.diff> > > Which makes the beginning of 2.1 read: > > 2.1. Challenge and Response > > HTTP provides a simple challenge-response authentication mechanism > that can be used by a server to challenge a client request and by a > client to provide authentication information. It uses an extensible, > case-insensitive token to identify the authentication scheme, > followed by additional information necessary for achieving > authentication via that scheme. The latter can either be a comma- > separated list of parameters or a single sequence of characters > capable of holding base64-encoded information. > > Parameters are name-value pairs where the name is matched case- > insensitively, and each parameter name MUST only occur once per > challenge. > > > Feedback appreciated, Julian Applied with <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1473>. Best regards, Julian
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