[TLS] registering x-509 mime types
"henry.story@bblfish.net" <henry.story@bblfish.net> Wed, 02 April 2014 06:31 UTC
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Subject: [TLS] registering x-509 mime types
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Hi, The HTML5 keygen element [1] works by having the browser send a public key to the server which can then return an X509 certificate back to the browser using one of the following mime types [2] (a) application/x-x509-user-cert (b) application/x-x509-ca-cert (c) application/x-x509-email-cert This seems to work for most browsers - Safari, Chrome, Nescape, Opera - and has been functioning like this since at least the year 2000 I think. The keygen tag was only added to html officially a few years ago. What is missing though is that these mime types are not registered at IANA. Is there anyone here ( or perhaps I should look somewhere else ) who would like to register that at IANA? It would at least make it easier for developers building web sites to work out what the correct mime type to use is. Perhaps one could also then get the html5 people to add a note about this to their specification. http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2014-April/084613.html Henry [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/forms.html#the-keygen-element [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Certificate_Download_Specification [3] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
- [TLS] registering x-509 mime types henry.story@bblfish.net
- Re: [TLS] registering x-509 mime types Anders Rundgren
- Re: [TLS] registering x-509 mime types Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: [TLS] registering x-509 mime types Anders Rundgren