- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:43:42 +0100
- To: Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>, secdir <secdir@ietf.org>, fielding@gbiv.com, mnot@pobox.com, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>, Pete Resnick <presnick@qti.qualcomm.com>, "Mankin, Allison" <amankin@verisign.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2013-10-29 20:35, Stephen Kent wrote: > ... > In Section 4.3, the text says: > > A proxy MAY relay > > the credentials from the client request to the next proxy if that is > > the mechanism by which the proxies cooperatively authenticate a given > > request. > > If, as stated here, a set of proxies cooperatively authenticate a > request, then isn’t this a MUST vs. a MAY? > ... Maybe. I have no experience with proxy authentication, and this piece of text was copied from <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.14.34>. Perhaps this is a case where we should drop the RFC2119 keywords and just make a statement such as: "A proxy can relay the credentials from the client request to the next proxy if that is the mechanism by which the proxies cooperatively authenticate a given request." ? Best regards, Julian
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