Re: [http-auth] Richard Barnes' Discuss on draft-ietf-httpauth-hoba-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 08 January 2015 14:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Richard Barnes' Discuss on draft-ietf-httpauth-hoba-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On 08/01/15 14:11, Kathleen Moriarty wrote:
>  I'm not sure why someone would want to
> use a development platform that is really out-of-date though. 

Some web developers get no choice. They don't control the
web server, just their chunks of PHP code.

S.