Re: Proxy authentication

On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> > In the current 02 version of the spec it is not clear (to me) that
> > the realm is required to be unique across hosts/proxies.
> 
> It isn't, but I was thinking in terms of having a user agent include
> more than one Proxy-Authorization header field in a request such
> that it can be passed on to two different proxies down the line.
> We can't do that right now because there is no way to differentiate
> between multiple credentials (even if they correspond to different
> realms in the prior challenge response).  In other words, we need PEP,
> and that won't be available until after 1.1 is finished, so can
> we table this discussion for now and get back to it in June?
> 

I think that is a good idea.

John Franks 	Dept of Math. Northwestern University
		john@math.nwu.edu

Received on Tuesday, 23 April 1996 21:06:32 UTC