Re: [Webpush] Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-webpush-vapid-03: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm> Tue, 15 August 2017 09:36 UTC

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From: Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm>
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-webpush-vapid <draft-ietf-webpush-vapid@ietf.org>, Phil Sorber <sorber@apache.org>, webpush-chairs@ietf.org, webpush@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [Webpush] Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-webpush-vapid-03: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On Wed, Aug 2, 2017, at 01:14 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 2 August 2017 at 05:55, Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> > Firstly, "optjons" above should be "options". Secondly, the MIME type
> > registration of application/webpush-options+json says that the MIME type has no
> > parameters, yet you use charset above. So which is it?
> 
> As Phil notes, the first was corrected already, the second is in
> c867529 on GitHub.  I'll push a new version at Adam's instruction.

I prefer a new draft.

What is the URL for the github? I couldn't find it on a quick glance.

> > In Section 3, 3rd para:
> >
> >    This authentication scheme does not require a challenge.  Clients are
> >    able to generate the Authorization header field without any
> >    additional information from a server.  Therefore, a challenge for
> >    this authentication scheme MUST NOT be sent in a WWW-Authenticate
> >    header field.
> >
> > Does this mean that there is no way to discover whether a particular server
> > supports "vapid" HTTP authentication scheme?
> 
> Not directly.  There was a plan to expose this via the User Agent, but
> we didn't reach a conclusion: https://github.com/w3c/push-api/pull/262
> 
> Another document could override this as well, I suppose.  The "MUST
> NOT" exists primarily because we don't define a challenge.

I think all authentication schemes should be discoverable in
WWW-Authenticate, as it is a part of HTTP authentication framework.

I think it would be good to clarify whether inclusion of "vapid" in
WWW-Authenticate without a challenge is allowed. The way your MUST NOT
is worded makes me think that this is something that a server
implementor can do accidentally. As there is no challenge data, I don't
see how this can happen anyway.