- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:23:14 -0600 (CST)
- To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>, Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Paul Leach wrote: > > > Actually, my comment (that both Etag and timestamp are good) was wrong. You > can't use an Etag in the nonce, because nonces aren't per-resource. They certainly can be. This is purely an implementation decision. Some existing implementations work this way. Nothing in the spec prohibits this and I doubt if that will change. Incidentally, whether an implementation is stateful (e.g. remembers all nonces used) or stateless is also an implementation decision. I very much doubt that any consensus could be reached on a specification change which either requires the server to be stateful or prohibits it from being so. John Franks john@math.nwu.edu
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