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From: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:00:34 -0500
Message-Id: <199801221400.JAA27856@devnix.agranat.com>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
X-Mailing-List: <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com> archive/latest/5264

>>>>> "BL" == Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> writes:

BL> I've just glanced through this, perhaps I've missed something. If nonces
BL> are going to be time-limited, we need a response that means "your nonce
BL> has expired" so the user is not prompted for a password again.

  It's in there... the server sends a 401 response, with the
  WWW-Authenticate header to provide nonce and 'stale=true' to
  indicate that it was the expired nonce that was the problem rather
  than the credentials.

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Scott Lawrence           EmWeb Embedded Server       <lawrence@agranat.com>
Agranat Systems, Inc.        Engineering            http://www.agranat.com/
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