Re: Minutes of 1/21 editorial teleconference...

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Ben Laurie wrote:

> John Franks wrote:
> > I believe we reached consensus to eliminate the entity digest and all
> > its associated paraphenalia.  After that consensus I volunteered to
> > try to cut down the previous version.  The results of that effort
> > (with a few changes since I sent it to Jim) are available at
> > 
> >      http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/digest.revised
> 
> I've just glanced through this, perhaps I've missed something. If nonces
> are going to be time-limited, we need a response that means "your nonce
> has expired" so the user is not prompted for a password again.
> 

That's what the "stale=true" field will do.

John Franks
john@math.nwu.edu