- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:24:52 +0100
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
[to the list this time; sorry for the fupe Nicolas] On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com> wrote: > Thomas Broyer wrote: >> http-cookie-auth is totally backwards compatible (except unfortunately >> with Opera pre-10.0, as Opera will then display an error page about >> the auth scheme not being supported); > > To avoid this problem again: does the spec say what user agents should do if > they find an unrecognized auth scheme? (ignore vs fail) In the absence of such a thing in HTTP (or HTTPbis), HTML5 defines the browsers' expected behavior (ignore): http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/history.html#navigating-across-documents -- Thomas Broyer /tɔ.ma.bʁwa.je/
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