Re: best status code for bad auth method

that was my initial though too, but in this case we'd already sent a 407 
with advertised methods, so the client already got it wrong once...

Regards

Adrien


On 9/12/2011 3:02 p.m., Mark Nottingham wrote:
> I think that'd be a 407; this basically says "here is the list of accepted auth methods" and the client can put two and two together...
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> Cheers,
>
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> On 09/12/2011, at 12:57 PM, Adrien de Croy wrote:
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>> Hi all
>>
>> hopefully a quick question...
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>> what is the best response code for a proxy that receives a request with a Proxy-Authorization header that specifies a method that is not acceptable to the proxy?
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>> another 407?
>> 403?  We don't want the client to repeat the request as is...
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>> or do we need a new status code for "auth method not allowed".
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>> Regards
>>
>> Adrien de Croy
>>
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