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Re: Authentication over HTTP

"Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> Mon, 15 July 2013 13:17 UTC

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:16:10 +0200
From: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Le Lun 15 juillet 2013 02:02, Poul-Henning Kamp a écrit :

> Authentication should happen either in the encrypting transport
> which moves HTTP/2.0 across (as in certificates and assymetric crypto)
> or in the application transported inside HTTP/2.0 (as in most web-site
> login dialogs), but HTTP/2.0 itself should not get involved:  It
> is the wrong layer.

However, secret transport *is* HTTP/2.0 domain, and there are quite a lot
of parts of the spec that assume "simple" auth (intermediary auth comes to
mind). I'm quite sure straightening auth requires at least some protocol
adjustments.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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