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Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis -- call for errata/clarifications to 2617

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Thu, 31 May 2007 21:16 UTC

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Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:16:02 -0400
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Subject: Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis -- call for errata/clarifications to 2617
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Hi Henrik,

--On May 31, 2007 8:57:28 PM +0200 Henrik Nordstrom 
<henrik@henriknordstrom.net> wrote:

>> (form-based, cookie-based etc). We then have separate documents for each
>> of  the http-based schemes basic and digest - and we should add
>> Kerberos/SPNEGO  to that too.
>
> Note: Both Kerberos & SPNEGO both break the foundations laid out by
> RFC2616 and 2617, tying authentication to connections and not messages.

Well there is already RFC4559 and some folks in the security area were 
working on tidying that up a bit more for a proposed standard.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

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