Re: [http-auth] Authentication-Info

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 02 December 2014 14:34 UTC

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On 2014-12-02 15:25, Michael Sweet wrote:
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>> ...
>> Changing the syntax sounds like a breaking change to Digest to me.
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> If optional, it wouldn't break Digest but would not provide a way for new implementations to adopt it.

Let's find out what the syntax variation is about before we start 
planning how to support it :-)

Best regards, Julian