(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 protected]>
To: HTTP Working Group <[email protected]>
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 protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
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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