Re: [community] from W3C….Fwd: Proposal: "User" header field

Hi,

could you please shed some light on the use case for the User field? What entity sets the value, what entitity uses it for what purpose? 

Regards,
Torsten.



Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> schrieb:

>On 7/18/13 1:38 PM, Torsten Lodderstedt wrote:
>> I fully agree with George und would like to add: why don't you just 
>> use the authorization header to send identity data/credentials/tokens
>
>> to the server in order to allow for access control?
>
>This is already possible. The requirement here stems from the fact that
>
>"From:" is bound specifically to mailto: scheme URIs (Uniform Resource 
>Identifiers). We are looking to "User:" to be the superClass of "From:"
>
>which is basically URI scheme agnostic. That's it.
>
>[SNIP]
>
>-- 
>
>Regards,
>
>Kingsley Idehen 
>Founder & CEO
>OpenLink Software
>Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
>Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
>Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen
>Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about
>LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen

Received on Friday, 19 July 2013 08:15:26 UTC