- From: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:20:09 +0100
- To: "Willy Tarreau" <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Le Jeu 16 février 2012 18:44, Willy Tarreau a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> The 407 error must be extended to indicate the https proxy authentication >> portal location to handle the cases where it is not desirable to have proxy >> auth transmitted in clear, and clients are too dumb to support anything more >> complex than basic auth over http or https. > > Well, this is one more reason for urging all browser vendors to support > proxying over https. This will put an end to this redirection madness > which prevents most HTTP agents from working in such environments (eg: > firefox cannot even update itself at a customer's due to such proxies, > so everyone uses outdated versions until they decide to download the full > image again). Thank you for your support I believe fixing this hole in the spec is also needed to get working captive portals (instead of the current half-working piles of bandaids that never quite work correctly) -- Nicolas Mailhot
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