Re: [http-auth] Pete Resnick's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-06: (with COMMENT)

Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty.ietf@gmail.com> Fri, 20 February 2015 14:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Pete Resnick's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-06: (with COMMENT)
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
wrote:

> > I changed the text to:
> >
> >>    Furthermore, a user-id containing a colon character is invalid, as
> >>    the first colon in a user-pass string separates user-id and password
> >>    from one another; text after the first colon is part of the password.
> >>    User-ids containing colons cannot be encoded in user-pass strings.
> >>
> >>    Note that many user agents produce user-pass strings without checking
> >>    that user-ids supplied by users do not contain colons; recipients
> >>    will then treat part of the username input as part of the password.
> >
> >
> > in <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpauth/trac/changeset/128>.
> >
> > Pete, Barry, does this sound good to you?
>
> That looks lovely to me.
>

Agreed, that looks much better.

Thanks,
Kathleen

>
> Barry
>



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Best regards,
Kathleen