- From: Ross Patterson <Ross_Patterson@ns.reston.vmd.sterling.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 97 14:32:22 EST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Sambasiva Rao <sams@wipinfo.soft.net> writes: >Few issues related to Authentication are as following : > >1> In the authentication credentials field defined as following > > credentials = basic-credentials > |auth-scheme #auth-param > in RFC2068. > > a> Does this mean the server must produce parse error if the client >sends two or more scheme credentials ? Yes, that's what it means. There is no provision in HTTP 1.1 for multiple sets of credentials on an Authorization header. By extension, that also means that there is no provision multiple Authorization headers in a request. Ross Patterson Sterling Software, Inc. VM Software Division
Received on Thursday, 20 November 1997 11:40:26 UTC