re:ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF
Chris Lewis <clewis@nortel.ca> Tue, 17 December 1996 15:56 UTC
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From: Chris Lewis <clewis@nortel.ca>
Subject: re:ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF
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In message "ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF", 'sob@owlman.academ.com' writes: >It was decided to remove AUTHINFO GENERIC and replace it with AUTHINFO >USER/PASS. I think you typoed. I think you meant to say "remove AUTHINFO SIMPLE" and replace it with AUTHINFO USER/PASS. The latter is in use. I don't think the former is. >However, this was also a suggetion to combined the two and that >AUTHINFO USER/PASS would imply AUTHINFO GENERIC SIMPLE. We decided to >discuss this further on the mailing list. I'll note that the AUTHINFO GENERIC browser end implementation can transparently cope with servers that do only AUTHINFO USER/PASS or SIMPLE. -- Chris Lewis, Senior Network Security Analyst, Nortel. clewis@nortel.ca; Dept 4C16, Ottawa, Canada. (613) 763-2935.