- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:27:15 -0400
- To: "Tom Gindin" <tgindin@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: "Ed Simon" <edsimon@xmlsec.com>, "Roman Huditsch" <roman.huditsch@hico.com>, <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 16:04, Tom Gindin wrote: > My question can be most simply stated as whether a reference with > neither type nor transform is to be interpreted as a transparent octet > stream to be fed to the digest algorithms, and if not, what syntax is > interpreted that way? As Christian noted, it depends on the URI. > I am trying to ensure that we have a syntax > defined for data that will NOT be interpreted as XML. A very simple > example would be the following: > <Reference URI="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3075.txt"> > <DigestMethod Algorithm > ="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1"/><DigestValue>Xyz=</DigestValue >> </Reference> Yes, it directly digests the octets in the HTTP entity-body returned upon dereferencing that URI.
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