Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> (The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme) to Proposed Standard
Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 10 February 2015 17:33 UTC
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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> (The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme) to Proposed Standard
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On 2015-02-06 16:44, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > > On 06/02/2015 15:35, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >> * Alexey Melnikov wrote: >>> On 05/02/2015 22:49, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> The realm value is an opaque string >>>> which can only be compared for equality with other realms on that >>>> server. >>>> >>>> RFC 7235 says "The realm value is a string, generally assigned by the >>>> origin server, that can have additional semantics specific to the >>>> authentication scheme." This seems contradictory (perhaps the intent is >>>> to say that for the particular case of Basic, the realm value is opaque >>>> in contrast to other schemes where it might not be opaque, but that is >>>> not clear from the text) and misleading (users make decisions based on >>>> the string, which often contains human readable text, so it's not >>>> really >>>> opaque to them). >>> I think it is opaque to clients and servers, so they shouldn't try to >>> parse it. >> A better phrase would be something like "free-form text". > Maybe something like "free-form text that MUST NOT be interpreted by > clients"? > I would also like to keep "which can only be compared for equality with > other realms on that server", as this is the important part. Clarifying: the descriptions of "realm" in RFC 7235 and in this draft are exactly what RFC 2617 said. That being said, I'm ok with replacing "opaque string" by "free-form text" if that makes the participants over here happy. Best regards, Julian
- 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