- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:15:30 -0600 (CST)
- To: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Scott Lawrence wrote: > > >>>>> "JF" == John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu> writes: > > >> #AUTH-INFO-SYNTAX has been quiet on the mailing list, and we didn't > >> get to discussing it at today's meeting. Please look at it and comment. > > JF> I believe we reached consensus to eliminate the Authentication-info > JF> header from the authentication specification. If this is done its > JF> syntax should be moot. > > The consensus was to remove the entity digest - the > Authentication-info header field is still needed for the nextnonce > attribute - a big performance win. > You are right. There was not a consensus to remove Authentication-info/nextnonce. I am sceptical of its utility however. It would be useful if a typical session looked like request - response - request - response - request - response... rather than 5 piplined requests - 5 piplined responses But the latter is much more likely to be typical. John Franks john@math.nwu.edu
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