- From: Mary Ellen Zurko <zurko@osf.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:42:29 -0400
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: zurko@osf.org
I was considering whether there would be any problems implementing what we needed with proxy authentication in a future version, if the current restrictions are passed. We could authentication the user (agent) to any proxy in line before a restricted proxy, but not after, because any restricted proxies would throw out proxy-authenticate and proxy-authorization headers it didn't understand. While that would work fine for services on the user side of, say, a firewall, it would not work for services on the service side of a firewall, which we also support. So passing the current restrictions would pose problems that we could not overcome in configurations involving proxies that support them. Just who should I be engaging with over this? Roy agrees that the restrictions are wrong :-), and John is willing to follow the lead of HTTP 1.1 (though he points out some good concerns), and Jim claims he'll make any changes that folks agree to. Mez
Received on Tuesday, 23 April 1996 07:48:35 UTC