Re: Call for adoption: draft-reschke-httpauth-auth-info-00

On 2015-01-30 22:45, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 31/01/2015 3:11 a.m., Rifaat Shekh-Yusef wrote:
>> Why would we restrict the use of this header in future protocols based on
>> the Digest usage of this header?
>> What would be the harm in allowing the new protocol that uses the header to
>> restrict it usage?
>>
>
> Information leaks. User credentials and secure token are potentially
> stored in here, as are details specific to the internal operation of the
> security algorithm selected/negotiated.
> ...

The intent of the draft was to separate out what was defined in RFC 
2617; thus I agree that we shouldn't relax the use unless there's broad 
consensus that that would be a good idea.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 2 February 2015 13:42:40 UTC