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Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> (The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme) to Proposed Standard

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 10 February 2015 22:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> (The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme) to Proposed Standard
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On 2015-02-10 22:36, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, The IESG wrote:
>
>>
>> The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
>> Authentication WG (httpauth) to consider the following document:
>> - 'The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme'
>>    <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> as Proposed Standard
>>
>> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
>> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
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>> Abstract
>>
>>
>>     This document defines the "Basic" Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
>>     Authentication Scheme, which transmits credentials as userid/password
>>     pairs, obfuscated by the use of Base64 encoding.
>
> I forget if this was already mentioned, but "local-specific encoding" in
> section 2 should probably use "locale" instead of "local".

No, it wasn't. Thanks!

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