- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:35:11 +0200
- To: cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 2014-07-09 06:32, cowwoc wrote: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7235#section-4.1 contains the following > example: > > WWW-Authenticate: Newauth realm="apps", type=1, > title="Login to \"apps\"", Basic realm="simple" > > This is meant to represent two challenges. > > How is a parser supposed to differentiate between different challenges and > the parameters belonging to the previous challenge? I can only assume that > challenges are identified as a key without a value, whereas parameters must > have a value. Is that correct? A scheme name is followed by whitespace and a parameter (if any). I wrote a regexp-based parser based on the ABNF and it works just fine, see <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc/httpauth/>. > If so, you might want to mention this explicitly in the specification > because it's not immediately obvious. Well, the specification was just published, so it's a bit late for editorial suggestions like this one... Best regards, Julian
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