Re: New issue: Header type for JWT format values

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 01:52:05PM -0700, Atul Tulshibagwale wrote:
> Hi Rory and Amos,
> I see these relevant headers in the HTTP field names registry:
> 
>    - Authentication-Control
>    - Authentication-Info
>    - Authorization

And WWW-Authenticate.

> The Authorization header cannot be used because it needs to be kept
> available for service-to-service authorization such as SPIFFE. The TraTs
> spec clarifies this here
> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-transaction-tokens-05.html#section-8>
> .

It might be nice if Authorization allowed multiple values..

Instead of defining new headers like this on a case-by-case basis, would
we benefit from defining an Authorizations header that allows multiple
values?

Nico
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Received on Wednesday, 23 July 2025 20:41:05 UTC