Re: 401 ("unauthenticated" v.s. "unauthorized")

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I agree that this requires clarification, but it is too late for RFC 7235.
>
> That being said, it would be good to have a single place for proposed
> future changes. My proposal would be to keep using the SVN Trac instance
> for that.
>
I'd be happy to file a change request for this if there is a link, or
provide more background as needed.

Thanks.


>
> Best regards, Julian
>
> On 2014-06-03 23:39, Grahame Grieve wrote:
>
>> I think that this an attempt to propose clarification, which is good,
>> because this is confusing:
>>
>> The 401 (Unauthorized) status code indicates that the request has not
>>     been applied because it lacks valid authentication credentials for
>>     the target resource
>>
>>
>> A server that receives valid credentials which are not adequate to
>>     gain access ought to respond with the 403 (Forbidden) status code
>>     (Section 6.5.3 of [Part2  <http://tools.ietf.org/html/
>> draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-26#ref-Part2>])
>>
>>
>> There's rather an overlap between those, and consequently quite a lack of
>>
>> clarity about which should be used when.
>>
>>
>> Grahame
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Wenbo Zhu <wenboz@google.com
>> <mailto:wenboz@google.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Just ping the group and see if we may consider renaming 401 as
>>     "unauthenticated", to be exact.
>>
>>     http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-26#section-2.1
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Wenbo
>>
>>
>>
>>
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