Re: WG Review: Recharter of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)

On 2012-02-22 08:04, David Morris wrote:
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> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Michael Richardson wrote:
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>>>>>>> "Barry" == Barry Leiba<barryleiba@computer.org>  writes:
>>      Barry>  OAuth is an authorization framework, not an authentication
>>      Barry>  one.  Please be careful to make the distinction.
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>>      Barry>  What we're looking at here is the need for an HTTP
>>      Barry>  authentication system that (for example) doesn't send
>>      Barry>  reusable credentials, is less susceptible to spoofing
>>      Barry>  attacks, and so on.
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>> and is implemented in HTTP, not in terms of HTML forms, yet has all the
>> flexibility of the HTML form method?
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> And includes the ability for the user to logoff / the server reset the
> login?

Is that a protocol problem or a user agent problem?

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Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:40:10 UTC