Re: [Dance] Archdoc/discuss: header fields --> envvar

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 27 January 2023 20:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dance] Archdoc/discuss: header fields --> envvar
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Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl> wrote:
    > The architecture draft mentions the use of TBD header fields for
    > passing certificate/identity information to an application.

uhm, okay. I don't remember that.,.. I'll have to go read the document.

    > May I suggest changing that to an environment variable?

I don't it's a normative part of the architecture document, so I think that
the important part is that it is communicated in an integral way.

    > I made similar definitions for HTTP-SASL in Appendix A,
    > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-vanrein-httpauth-sasl-08#name-http-server-environment-var

okay, please send a pull request against the arch, if you can.


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