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Re: [rtcweb] URI schemes for TURN and STUN

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sat, 05 November 2011 14:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] URI schemes for TURN and STUN
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
> On 11/04/2011 04:56 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:

>> I don't have any commitment to the scheme. What's the best place?
>
> I like parameters, like this:
>
> turn://user@host?proto=tcp
>
> Quite hard to misunderstand, and quite easy to extend.
>
> (Note: // is only allowed if what follows is [user[:pass]@]host - I don't
> recommend using the password, for the obvious reasons, but the syntax will
> allow it.)

I don't see any security problem with that. The "break old
implementations" rationale
doesn't apply when we are defining a new URI scheme.

-Ekr

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