>>I guess you wouldn't want a creative proxy which would re-write >>BASIC authentication into digest authentication either? > >I don't want proxies to be `creative'. I think that HTTP/1.x should >not allow creative proxies, and am against weakening MUSTs to allow >such creativity. ??? A "Creative proxy" is just a gateway. In the HTTP spec proxy is simply a name for a gateway that has the particular property that the source and destination protocols are the same and the request processing does not "alter" the request. The spec can define what is and what is not a proxy but it cannot tell you what a gateway can or cannot do, nor can it tell you not to point your browser "proxy" resource to a server that is operating as a gateway rather than a proxy. Phill
Received on Tuesday, 8 July 1997 17:00:01 UTC