- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:45:20 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
* Julian Reschke wrote: >while looking into the RFC 2617 Basic issues with I18N of username / >password, I was reminded that we currently have a missing feature with >respect to "realm" -- there's no way to put non-ASCII characters here. > >This may be perfectly fine for the use of partitioning the protection >space, but we know that UAs also use the realm when prompting. > >Do we need to fix this in HTTPbis? If not, where? Extension spec? HTTP authentication would need a bigger overhaul for this to be useful; I don't think it's worth spending time on without also doing something about the bigger usability issues here. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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