Re: ignoring unknown parameters, Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> (The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme) to Proposed Standard
Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Tue, 10 February 2015 21:00 UTC
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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
Subject: Re: ignoring unknown parameters, Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> (The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme) to Proposed Standard
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* Julian Reschke wrote: >On 2015-02-06 07:43, Julian Reschke wrote: >> ... >>> There should be an example for "no other authentication parameters are >>> defined -- unknown parameters MUST be ignored by recipients", otherwise >>> such extension points are too easily missed by implementers. >> >> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc/httpauth/#simplebasicnewparam2> shows that >> UAs seem to get at least this correct. I'll think about it. > >OK. In my tests I don't see anybody getting *that* wrong, and the new >text already is much clearer than RFC 2617 ever was. > >Thus I don't think we need an example here. Also note that the real >challenge (pun intended) is to parse multiple challenges properly; this >is something many UAs *do* get wrong despite the prose in both RFC 2617 >and RFC 7235. You cannot really test future implementations. I will survive without an example, but I think it is a bad practise to omit examples demonstrating extension mechanisms like this one. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de D-10243 Berlin · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de Available for hire in Berlin (early 2015) · http://www.websitedev.de/
- Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-upd… Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Julian Reschke
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Barry Leiba
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Julian Reschke
- ignoring unknown parameters, Re: [http-auth] Last… Julian Reschke
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Tony Hansen
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Julian Reschke
- Re: ignoring unknown parameters, Re: [http-auth] … Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Julian Reschke
- Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-b… Kathleen Moriarty