Re: Security Requirements for HTTP, draft -00

On Feb 1, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Paul Leach wrote:
> [Paul Leach] Are you taking into account that, after an FBA,  
> subsequent requests to the same site are authorized by a cookie  
> (i.e., they have no auth headers at all), whereas with Basic every  
> request has an auth header?

It doesn't make any difference either way.  The notion that  
authenticated
HTTP requests are almost entirely based on FBA is absurd.  It ignores  
the
fact that most HTTP requests aren't even made by browsers.

....Roy

Received on Friday, 1 February 2008 23:17:10 UTC