- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:50:27 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Mark Nottingham wrote: > > I was wondering if there's been any discussion of adding HTTP > authentication capabilities to Web forms or other products of the WG (If > there has, apologies in advance; I think the work happening here is > important, but I don't have the time to track it closely). This hasn't been discussed yet, no. > For example, I could imagine having form controls or widgets to: > - remove a site's authentication state from the browser when activated > (i.e., a "log out" interface) > - add user data to a site's authentication state in the browser (i.e., "log > on" interfaces) > - display the user's current authentication state Yes, that would be great. The main problem would be working out how to define this in a backwards- compatible way. However, I would love to address this, as you describe. I have noted it as an open issue for the Web Apps 1.0 draft. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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