- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:47:39 -0500
- To: "Rice, Ed (ProCurve)" <ed.rice@hp.com>
- Cc: "John Cowan" <cowan@ccil.org>, "Vincent Quint" <Vincent.Quint@inrialpes.fr>, www-tag@w3.org
Ed Rice writes: > The only possible exception I could see would be if you had only two > computers on your network and they're together in a locked room. > But then its outside of the scope of the world wide web so the > finding doesn't apply. Whether you agree with them or not, other responses on this list suggest examples on the public network in which relatively knowledgeable providers of Web resources claim that they are happy with the intermediate level of security provided by HTTP Basic over ordinary HTTP. See for example [1]. Noah [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2006Nov/0085.html -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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