Re: security requirements (was: Updating RFC 2617 (HTTP Digest) to use UTF-8)

On 11/4/06, Paul Leach <paulle@windows.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Which is pretty silly given that proprietary Web server applications
> exist only as deployed--there is no separate "implementation".
> [Paul Leach] I don't understand the above sentence.
>

Increasingly, software is written expressly for one website, not
distributed through traditional commercial software channels such as
CD-ROMs or pre-installed on new computers. This style of deployment
has a lot of advantages, and the implement/configure distinction is
meaningless. There is only one copy.

At any rate, I believe other messages have established that the
meaning of the HTTP version number field is pretty clear. I think the
list should revisit this topic when everyone is prepared to accept the
requirements of RFC 2616 and RFC 2145. Is there something unclear
about "conditional conformance"?

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Robert Sayre

Received on Sunday, 5 November 2006 04:20:00 UTC