Re: Interop issue: how can clients force authentication?

Authentication is explicitly out of the scope of the ACL spec.
Authentication is assumed to be handled at the HTTP level, and there are
already plenty of schemes for this.

--Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
To: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@xythos.com>; "'Ilya Kirnos'"
<ilya.kirnos@oracle.com>
Cc: "'Webdav WG'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:37 AM
Subject: RE: Interop issue: how can clients force authentication?


..

> makes it clear that we need some more time to precisely describe what the
> actual problem is. It's an interesting problem, and I suppose it needs to
be
> discussed in relation to the ACL spec. However I don't think there's any
> reason to declare it an interop problem just to rush a quick workaround
into
> RFC2518bis.
>

Received on Wednesday, 18 September 2002 14:13:57 UTC