Re: [hybi] -09: security considerations

Diogo Pereira <diogo.pereira@ist.utl.pt> Mon, 20 June 2011 07:20 UTC

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2011/6/20 Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>:
> Also HTTP has BASIC and DIGEST authentication, while WS does not
> (although it could very easily support these).

I think this is implicitly allowed:

 "1.  If the status code received from the server is not 101, the
       client handles the response per HTTP procedures." (p. 30)

So in response to a 401 the client could resend the handshake request
with an Authorization header.

-- 
Diogo