Re: comments on http-authentication-00

At 12:33 12/5/97 EST, Dave Kristol wrote:

>1) Sect 1.2
>	[Proxies] MUST forward the WWW-Authenticate and Authorization
>	headers untouched....
>
>I would like MUST to be SHOULD.  I've brought this up once before.
>There may be services (LPWA, lpwa.com, is one such) whose legitimate
>purpose is to provide authentication services for a user, such as
>replacing special character sequences in Authorization with a user's
>computed identity.  The proxy ought to be able to do so without being
>considered non-compliant.

Yes, this was resolved in the discussion [1] on the list. The solution that
was last called is stated in [2].

Henrik

[1] http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1997q3/0181.html
[2] http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1997q3/0096.html

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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk

Received on Friday, 5 December 1997 09:55:38 UTC