[hybi] Authentication headers

Wellington Fernando de Macedo <wfernandom2004@gmail.com> Mon, 07 June 2010 20:34 UTC

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Subject: [hybi] Authentication headers
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Hi,

I'm updating the Mozilla's implementation of the WS protocol to its latest
version (v.76).
I know that handling the 401 http response was already removed in the v75.
But now
I've noted that even the http Authorization header has been removed.

Well, I think that the 401 http status was removed in order to prevent the
browser to
open unexpected auth dialogs to the user. Actually, I know there is the
cookie information,
but I think it isn't always enough. So, I would like to ask, why can't a
"normal"
request include the Authorization header from its page origin?

Wellington.