RE: Access Control: What's On The Wire

> 
> This might just be a more direct way of saying what you are saying.
> 
> I think you will find that the only way to specify that credentials =
> should be sent without restricting the implementation to any particular =
> method (X.509, kerberos...) is to define a "credential cookie" which the =
> client sends to the server.
> 
> Determining which form of credential to send (assuming the client has a =
> choice) would require the client and/or the server to send a list of the =
> supported credential "formats" in order of preference the one being used =
> being the highest commonly supported format (credential handshake).
> 
> This implies that the minimum that this WG is going to have to do is
> 
> 1) Decide which schemes we regard as candidates for credentials
> 2) Determine the extension to HTTP for the credential handshaking =
> explicitly naming the identified credential schemes and such that it can =
> be extended to support other schemes (similar to the MIME-type names)
> 3) Determine the extension to HTTP for the credential cookie transfer
What's to stop using extension schemes under WWW-Authenticate
as credentials?

Received on Thursday, 29 May 1997 10:52:33 UTC

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