Subject: Re: [saag] [apps-discuss] Fwd: Informal Last Call for draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04, was: Fwd: I-D Action: draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.txt

From: Stephen Farrell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Forwarding to saag, (has already been sent to http-auth)
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On 01/29/2012 03:39 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> (FYI)
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Informal Last Call for draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04, was:
> Fwd: I-D Action: draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.txt
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:38:02 +0100
> From: Julian Reschke <[email-masked]>
> To: HTTP Working Group <[email-masked]>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I just submitted a new revision of d draft-reschke-basicauth-enc - see
> below (HTML version at
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.html>;
> this version also includes new hooks for providing feedback; please try!).
>
> At this point, I'd like to solicit additional feedback before I proceed;
> in particular: should this potentially be an Applications Area WG
> deliverable?
>
> With respect to intended status: in theory, this is a candidate for
> Experimental. However, Basic Authentication (as defined in RFC 2617)
> doesn't have a registry for extension parameters, so the cleanest
> approach appears to say "Updates 2617", which IMHO requires a standards
> track document.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: I-D Action: draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.txt
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:28:40 -0800
> From: [email-masked]
> Reply-To: [email-masked]
> To: [email-masked]
>
>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
>
> Title : An Encoding Parameter for HTTP Basic Authentication
> Author(s) : Julian F. Reschke
> Filename : draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.txt
> Pages : 9
> Date : 2012-01-29
>
> The "Basic" authentication scheme defined in RFC 2617 does not
> properly define how to treat non-ASCII characters. This has lead to
> a situation where user agent implementations disagree, and servers
> make different assumptions based on the locales they are running in.
> There is little interoperability for characters in the ISO-8859-1
> character set, and even less interoperability for any characters
> beyond that.
>
> This document defines a backwards-compatible extension to "Basic",
> specifying the server's character encoding expectation, using a new
> authentication scheme parameter.
>
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.txt
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>
> This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.txt
>
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