Re: Follow-up on draft-ietf-netconf-http-client-server

Thanks Ben!

Noted: client-auth not always mandatory for web proxies.

Cheers,
Kent


> On Jul 23, 2020, at 2:06 PM, Ben Schwartz <bemasc@google.com> wrote:
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> No, it's entirely common to operate a Web Proxy that does not require or
> perform any HTTP or TLS client authentication.  Typically, this is because
> authorization is implicit from the network topology, and the proxy is only
> reachable by authorized users.
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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:24 AM Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net <mailto:kent+ietf@watsen.net>> wrote:
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>> TL;DR;  Is client-auth to a web proxy mandatory?
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>> Thanks,
>> Kent
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>> On Jul 21, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net> wrote:
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>> Thank you all for your earlier comments regarding
>> draft-ietf-netconf-http-client-server
>> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-http-client-server <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-http-client-server>>.
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>> The draft is now almost ready for WGLC (which will be CC-ed here as well)=
> ,
>> but there remains one item for which your guidance is needed (see bottom)=

Received on Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:24:17 UTC