> Perhaps more important than browser considerations is support of > programatic User Agents where there is no direct human interaction. > HTTP authentication is certainly relevant in that space and should > be covered in any proposals for enhancement. > > There is also what I'd call an intermediate User Agent ... where a > person may trigger a data transfer task interactively but not > care about success or failure. A common example would be Subversion. Very true, it is easy to get focused on popular browsers. While I didn't call it out explicitly, non-interactive clients is one reason why I feel having a change in HTTP itself is useful, rather than in some content standard (HTML, etc) that many of these agents may not support. Regards, timReceived on Wednesday, 13 January 2010 06:14:34 UTC
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