- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:58:25 -0500 (EST)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Yves Lafon wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>
>>> An interesting proposal is to continue returning content with status 200,
>>> but to include the WWW-Authenticate header nevertheless. RFC2616 currently
>>> is silent about this combination:
>> [..]
>>
>>> Has anybody tried this before?
>>
>> I saw that on a very popular server due to an error in one extension, some
>> browser rendered the pages correctly, some other prompted the user for
>> authentication (despite the 200 status code).
>
> I just tried it with Opera/FF/Safari/IE7/Chrome (latest Windows XP version),
> and none of them prompted the user...
w3m is, and some other text-based tools.
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Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.
~~Yves
Received on Friday, 28 November 2008 12:58:34 UTC