- From: Jesse Wilson <jesse@swank.ca>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:15:46 -0400
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Received on Monday, 21 April 2014 02:16:34 UTC
I’m working on improving the Challenge/Credential API of OkHttp<https://github.com/square/okhttp>and I’ve stumbled across a curious case in the grammar. Specifically in auth section 2.1<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-26#section-2.1>), which says this: challenge = auth-scheme [ 1*SP ( token68 / #auth-param ) ] auth-param = token BWS "=" BWS ( token / quoted-string ) token68 = 1*( ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~" / "+" / "/" ) *"=" Suppose I receive this response header: WWW-Authenticate: Wink ABC= Is ABC= a four character token68? Or is it a parameter named ABC whose value is the empty string? My current plan is to defer interpreting the header until the application layer requests it. But that approach is not particularly satisfying. Thanks!
Received on Monday, 21 April 2014 02:16:34 UTC