- From: Jan Algermissen <jan.algermissen@nordsc.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 07:46:47 +0200
- To: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Hi, before I dive deeper into this, I am interested in immediate reactions from this group. I am working on token based acess control and have the following use case as part of an experimental protocol I am working on: A client is given an access token with a certain live time. The client does not know the expiration time, but when it requests a protected resource with an expired token the server should tell the client in the response. This would trigger the client to refresh the access token. I could do this with an error_code="token-expired" parameter in a 401 but thinking about this, I would find sth like 4xx Credentials Expired a much better fit because the status code is AFAIU more suitable when an automatic action by the client is desired. The semantic is also not tied to the protocol I have in mind, but rather generic. I'd be interested in the resonance such a proposal would provoke. If it is not entirely negative I'd go ahead and draft such a new code. Jan
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