- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 01:14:15 -0400
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Hi. One thing I've been thinking about recently is security. I would
like to be able to assign different passwords to different levels of
a heirarchy, and to have the clearances be cumultive:
  <root>   Basic foo:bar
     |
     +----- <directory1>  Basic grok:baz
                |
                +----- <directory2> Basic foo:pax
where to get to directory2 via a URL you'd do something like:
   root/directory1/directory2
What I want is:
   1) To get to directory2, you need all the name+password pairs
   2) That when you move back up, you don't need to reauthenticate
This isn't directly related to HTTP, but is rather a server-side
issue. I was wondering is anyone has done this?
     
Received on Sunday, 9 April 1995 22:16:21 UTC