Re: Logging into the datatracker

worley@ariadne.com (Dale R. Worley) Mon, 14 April 2014 21:49 UTC

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> From: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>

> Today's datatracker release changed the way you sign in, and has added 
> the ability to sign out.
> 
> See <https://datatracker.ietf.org/release/> for details.

> "This release changes user authentication for the datatracker from
> basic http auth to Django's built-in authentication."

No doubt this is all for the best in practice, but it does eliminate
the one and only web site I've ever used that uses HTTP
authentication.  R.I.P. RFC 2617.

Dale