- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:31:56 +0100
- To: "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
- CC: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>, "HTTP Working Group (ietf-http-wg@w3.org)" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > ... > So, let's restart. What's broken in RFC 2617 is: > > credentials = auth-scheme #auth-param > > because that ABNF does not allow basic credentials. > > This one used to be in RFC 2068: > > credentials = basic-credentials > | auth-scheme #auth-param > > which special cases "Basic", but does so incorrectly (because > basic-credentials doesn't contain the scheme name). > > A fix for that (and *only* for that) would be: > > credentials = "Basic" basic-credentials > | auth-scheme #auth-param > ... So, last call: should I report this erratum? (I don't think I can update the bad one I already sent...) Best regards, Julian
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