Why Auth is ingoingFilter and not lookup?

• From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
• Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 22:20:21 +0100 (MET)
• To: Alexandre Rafalovitch <alex@access.com.au>
• Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
• Message-Id: <199702032120.WAA28563@www43.inria.fr>

Alexandre Rafalovitch writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > The question said it all. The auth filter and derivatives check security in
 > 'ingoingFilter' method and not in 'lookup' method. I cannot see what are
 > the reasons for that.

There is no good reason, except history. I will try to fix that (I
hope I am not missing something), before next public release.

Anselm.

Received on Monday, 3 February 1997 16:31:31 UTC