Question on Multiplicity of Authorization and WWW-Authenticate

Hi,

I was wondering whether there can be multiple Authorization headers in an HTTP request.

AFAIU does not address the question, so I turned to [2] which suggests that there can only be one Authorization header per request. Because Authorization does not have a list value format.

Is that interpretation correct?

I am wondering because I understand [1] to say that WWW-Authenticate can indeed be used multiple times. However, WWW-Authenticate also does not have a list value format but is also not listed as an exception in [2], as is Set-Cookie.

Can anyone clarify?

Jan

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-22
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-22#section-3.2.2

Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 11:55:33 UTC