Re: #78: Relationship between 401, Authorization and WWW-Authenticate

Nice text; +1.

On 26/07/2011, at 3:29 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Or even....:
> 
> "The credentials carried in an Authorization header field are specific to the User Agent, and therefore have the same effect on HTTP caches as the "private" Cache-Control response directive, within the scope of the
> request they appear in.
> 
> Therefore, new authentication schemes which choose not to carry credentials in the Authorization header (e.g., using a newly defined
> header) will need to explicitly disallow caching, by mandating the use of either Cache-Control request directives (e.g., "no-store") or response directives (e.g., "private")."

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Received on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:45:39 UTC