- From: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:11:40 +1200
- To: Thomas Maslen <Thomas.Maslen@quest.com>
- CC: "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
base 64 blobs allow any sort of arbitrary binary structure to be sent. Therefore anything can be described by a single one. On 28/07/2011 1:06 p.m., Thomas Maslen wrote: > On Wed 2011-07-27 17:45 +0700 Manger, James H<James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> wrote: > [...] >> That is, I think a<b64> blob should only be allowed when it is the first (and only) parameter. > I agree, both for challenges and for credentials. > > If some auth-scheme needs multiple base64 blobs it should use #auth-param > (i.e. key-value pairs, presumably with quoted-string values) to convey them. > > I agree that NTLM, Negotiate, and even Nego2 need only a single base64 blob; > they do not need multiple base64 blobs. > -- Adrien de Croy - WinGate Proxy Server - http://www.wingate.com WinGate 7 beta out now - http://www.wingate.com/getlatest/
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