Re: [secdir] proxies and forwarding of credentials, was: SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-24

[Stephen Kent <[e-mail]>]

Julian,

I alos don't have personal experience with the proxy situation. I was 
just commenting on
what appeared to be a logical inconsistency in the text.

I defer to others, who have such experience, on this detail.

Steve
> On 2013-10-29 20:35, Stephen Kent wrote:
>> ...
>> In Section 4.3, the text says:
>>
>> A proxy MAY relay
>>
>> the credentials from the client request to the next proxy if that is
>>
>> the mechanism by which the proxies cooperatively authenticate a given
>>
>> request.
>>
>> If, as stated here, a set of proxies cooperatively authenticate a
>> request, then isn’t this a MUST vs. a MAY?
>> ...
>
> Maybe. I have no experience with proxy authentication, and this piece 
> of text was copied from 
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.14.34>.
>
> Perhaps this is a case where we should drop the RFC2119 keywords and 
> just make a statement such as:
>
> "A proxy can relay the credentials from the client request to the next 
> proxy if that is the mechanism by which the proxies cooperatively 
> authenticate a given request."
>
> ?
>
> Best regards, Julian
>