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Title : HTTP Authentication with EAP
Author(s) : J. Arkko, V. Torvinen, A. Niemi
Filename : draft-torvinen-http-eap-01.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 21-Nov-01
This document describes a HTTP authentication scheme using PPP
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).
HTTP EAP authentication enables HTTP connections to be authenticated
using any of the authentication schemes supported through EAP. EAP
performs the authentication without sending the password in the
clear text format (which is the biggest weakness of the Basic HTTP
authentication scheme, for example).
EAP is useful for HTTP protocol because it opens up several new
authentication schemes without additional specification work. The
same benefits can be reached by any other protocols, which apply
HTTP authentication, such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
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