Re: Client Certificates - re-opening discussion from Alex Rousskov on 2015-09-22 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2015)

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:58:40 -0600
To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Cc: "henry.story@bblfish.net" <henry.story@bblfish.net>
Message-ID: <5601B2F0.6080002@measurement-factory.com>

On 09/22/2015 04:24 AM, henry.story@bblfish.net wrote:

> Ok, this does make the use case much clearer: how does one allow a
> company with an HTTP/1.1 enabled web site using client certificates
> to switch to HTTP/2.0 without the site acting very differently.

Please replace "site" with "server". Existing HTTP proxies, including
some large CDN-like proxy hierarchies, use client certificates for
client-proxy and proxy-proxy authentication.

Alex.

Received on Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:59:30 UTC