Re: RFC2616 vs RFC2617, was: Straw-man charter for http-bis

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:16:27AM +1200,
 Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote 
 a message of 38 lines which said:

> my experience also is that it is extremely rare to encounter public
> web servers that use any HTTP auth mechanism.

We do not live in the same world, then. I worked today on a program (a
del.icio.us link checker) which use it. Many Web APIs use this
mechanism. 

Unless if, by "Web servers" , you mean only "Web servers for
interactive human usage".

Received on Thursday, 14 June 2007 07:50:00 UTC