Re: [Ohttp] Martin Duke's No Objection on charter-ietf-ohttp-00-00: (with COMMENT)

[Martin Thomson <[e-mail]>]

Hi Martin,

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021, at 08:20, Martin Duke via Datatracker wrote:
> I'm satisfied (via email and draft-thomson) that answers to these questions
> exist, but the charter could use some more explanation of the server/proxy
> relationship.  

The proxy provides a resource (identified by a URL) that the client sends encapsulated requests to.  Any request the proxy receives is forwarded to a resource (identified by a URL) at the server.

For the purposes of making the first request, the client authenticates the proxy.  The encapsulation on the request ensures that only the server can remove the encapsulation.  So in a sense it doesn't matter what the proxy does with it, but the proxy is expected to authenticate the server.  As far as making requests and authenticating servers, this is just how HTTP works.

> I assume that the proxy can't see the request targets, and thus
> there must be a habitual relationship between the two. 

Yes.  Habitual == fixed on a per-resource basis.