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Re: [OAUTH-WG] What to do about 'realm'

Dick Hardt <dick.hardt@gmail.com> Mon, 28 June 2010 05:37 UTC

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From: Dick Hardt <dick.hardt@gmail.com>
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I vote for (3) unless a good (4) is suggested.

On 2010-06-27, at 6:51 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:

> Over the past year many people expressed concerns about the use of the ‘realm’ WWW-Authenticate header parameter. The parameter is defined in RFC 2617 as required, and is allowed to have scheme-specific structure.
>  
> We have a few options:
>  
> 1. Leave it as required under the definition of RFC 2617 (i.e. provide no help, developers will need to ready 2617 and figure out what to do with it).
> 2. Update 2617 to remove the requirement – this is not going to be easy or possible to predict success.
> 3. Provide specific guidance as to what to do with the realm parameter.
> 4. Something else.
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> Comments?
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> EHL
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