RE: Proposal for new HTTP 1.1 authentication scheme

I think that the spec for "domain" is broken -- it specifies a list of URIs,
but doesn't say that these can be _prefixes_ of URIs that may also use the
same credentials. Without that, it is pretty uselss, IMHO.


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> From: 	Scott Lawrence[SMTP:lawrence@agranat.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, December 05, 1997 10:53 AM
> To: 	Eric_Houston/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com
> Cc: 	http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Subject: 	Re: Proposal for new HTTP 1.1 authentication scheme
> 
> 
> Digest authentication already includes a mechanism (the 'domain'
> attribute; see section 3.2.1 of draft-ietf-http-authentication-00) to
> specify that credentials may be used on multiple servers, and through the
> 'digest' attribute allows for mutual authentication.  
> 
> There is also the model of Kerberos to consider - developing a
> ticket-based authentication scheme (with the advantages and problems of
> any third-party mechanism) would be another area to explore.
>  
>

Received on Tuesday, 9 December 1997 04:08:15 UTC