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Re: Portal authorization

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 10 April 2012 10:13 UTC

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On 2012-04-10 09:00, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
> Le Mar 10 avril 2012 03:31, "Martin J. Dürst" a écrit :
>> Hello Jamie, others,
>>
>> Mark had a draft on this,
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-portal-02. I'm not sure
>> why it didn't move forward.
>
> I think it morphed in http error 511 however:
>
> 1. error 511 does not return an url so it can't be handled by dumb web clients
> such as curl

Nor did the proposal in draft-nottingham-http-portal-02. Also, handling 
by dumb web clients was never on the agenda for this code, and I'm also 
not sure how it's supposed to work.

> 2. browser people do not like it. Gateway auth really needs to be specified
> once and for all in a document with browser buy-in such as http/2

Please do not make blanket statements like these unless you can back 
them up.

Best regards, Julian

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