Re: Policy vs. URI (Re: Semantics of HTTPS) from Martin Thomson on 2012-09-13 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2012)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:04:28 -0700
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
Cc: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnVbNwmB3Ytv0ohL-HGv5-g5Bd2mD3tNa2O+z18ma9fsUg@mail.gmail.com>

On 13 September 2012 06:45, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> There are historical reasons why we only have a binary flag to express security policy in a URI.

There are usability reasons as well.  Though I concede that it's not
clear that it actually aids usability in any meaningful way.

Received on Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:05:04 UTC