Re: best status code for bad auth method

That most definitely did not occur to us dude

Actually I just had to make a Big Lebowski reference on httpbis to save my
life.

I will say that my intuition is that the 407 would come bearing some
response header indicative of what the client was supposed to make for a
next attempt, that would suffice at least for implementations I am
imagining?

Dale



2011/12/8 Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>

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> Hi all
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> hopefully a quick question...
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> what is the best response code for a proxy that receives a request with a
> Proxy-Authorization header that specifies a method that is not acceptable
> to the proxy?
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> another 407?
> 403?  We don't want the client to repeat the request as is...
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> or do we need a new status code for "auth method not allowed".
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> Regards
>
> Adrien de Croy
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