Adding user@ to HTTP[S] URIs

Hello,

I wrote a draft to support http://user@host.name in HTTP / HTTPS URIs.
The user is part of resource name space selection, and is not related to
client authentication.  It is given its own "User" header field.

I am aware that this URI form is banned in RFC 7321, Section 2.7.1, last
paragraph, but explain in issue #278 that this is unjustified:
http://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/278


Feedback welcomed.

Rick van Rein
InternetWide.org


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New Version Notification for draft-vanrein-http-unauth-user-02.txt
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:54:31 -0800
From: internet-drafts@ietf.org
To: Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>


A new version of I-D, draft-vanrein-http-unauth-user-02.txt
has been successfully submitted by Rick van Rein and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name:  draft-vanrein-http-unauth-user
Revision: 02
Title:  User Names for HTTP Resources
Document date: 2020-01-24
Group:  Individual Submission
Pages:  5
URL:
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vanrein-http-unauth-user-02.txt
Status:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vanrein-http-unauth-user/
Htmlized:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vanrein-http-unauth-user-02
Htmlized:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-vanrein-http-unauth-user
Diff:
https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-vanrein-http-unauth-user-02

Abstract:
   Most protocols support users under domain names, but HTTP does not.
   Usage patterns in the wild do suggest a desire to have this facility.
   This specification defines a header for user names, orthogonal to any
   authentication or authorisation concerns.

Received on Friday, 24 January 2020 23:00:22 UTC