- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:52:29 +0100
Ian Hickson wrote: >> People are trained to configure credentials as value pairs (name, >> password). Anything more complex than that will be tricky to deploy in >> generic frameworks. > > Nothing requires servers to do anything but username/password. Indeed. > I don't really understand what you are asking here. Presumably in a system > where only username/password credentials are desired, only username/ > password credentials will be used. I was hoping that the authentication scheme you're defining can be used without parsing the HTML response. A simple way to achieve it would be to restrict it to username/password pairs, and to have the names of these form parameters live in the response headers as well. >> OK, so how do you tell a mount command that your credentials are more >> complex than username/password? > > How do you tell a mount command that your credentials are a certificate? If your credentials are a cert, why would you use form-base logon? (I admit I'm not an expert on these issue, so please by patient with me). > ... BR, Julian
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