Re: HTTP Signatures draft published at IETF

On 10 May 2013 02:05, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> From's semantics and syntax are well-defined, and they are in use. If you
> want to do this, I'd suggest defining a new header, or a new link relation
> (to use in Link); From isn't going to fly.
>

Why?


>
> Regards,
>
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> On 09/05/2013, at 7:18 PM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Excerpts from Kingsley Idehen's message of 2013-05-08 20:29:19 +0000:
> >> On 5/7/13 2:12 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 7 May 2013 19:01, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com
> >>> <mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>    On 05/07/2013 04:04 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> >>>> Yeah, I'll ping Julian Reschke or Mark Nottingham about it to see if
> >>>> we can update the HTTP header field easily.
> >>>>
> >>>> +1
> >>>>
> >>>> There have been proponents of this for many years e.g. Toby, Nathan,
> >>>> Kingsley, myself ... just need to get the spec tweaked to
> >>>> distinguish between strings and URIs.
> >>>
> >>>    Do one of you want to take the lead on this? :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sure, I would be happy to.  Kingsley already asked Mark Nottingham
> >>> about this last month.  Im unsure what the most productive next steps
> >>> should be.
> >> Mark,
> >>
> >> Another dimension to the same issue.
> >>
> >> We can loosen the HTTP spec requirements for "From:" without disrupting
> >> existing products that assume the header value is an Email address.
> >>
> >> All:
> >>
> >> Do we have any data about how broad current use of "From:" actually is?
> > +1 on allowing URI in "From:" request header :)
> >
> > I set it myself to email for about 2 years now using firefox extension:
> http://www.garethhunt.com/modifyheaders
> >
> > I also mentioned it in this email with link to work of Blaine Cook on
> *Privacy-over-Webfinger*
> >
> https://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/thread/52599662c273a043
> >
> > warning: mentioned thread got mixed with another thread so few messages
> went off topic first!
>
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> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
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