Re: HTTP Signatures draft published at IETF

On 7 May 2013 04:10, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> On 05/06/2013 09:24 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> > No, just a tweak to HTTP re., acceptable values for the "From:"
> > request header.
>
> Ha! I had no idea that HTTP had a "From" header:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.22
>
> Yeah, I'll ping Julian Reschke or Mark Nottingham about it to see if we
> can update the HTTP header field easily.
>

+1

There have been proponents of this for many years e.g. Toby, Nathan,
Kingsley, myself ... just need to get the spec tweaked to distinguish
between strings and URIs.  Non email values in the from header are already
permissible.


>
> > We have something here on many levels. "From:" just adds an
> > intuitive feature for those that don't want to delve too deeply into
> > entity relationship semantics and RDF.
>
> Agreed.
>
> -- manu
>
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Received on Tuesday, 7 May 2013 08:04:43 UTC