authentication on http-requests

I'd like to add at least a  'username' and 'password' attribute to
c:http-request
so that an "Authorization" header can be generated as appropriate.

The minimum semantics would be that a p:http-request must respond to
an authentication challenge if the authorization credentials are given.

Optionally, we could add a "auth-method" attribute that would take
"basic" or "digest".  If that attribute is specified, an
"Authorization" header would
be generated on the first request to avoid a challenge response and
resending of the request.

-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics

Received on Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:16:58 UTC