Repeating, it's important on the server side. I have a lot of code that depends on examining this. This way the code does not have to explicitly check stuff like ( protocol.equals(Protocol.HTTPS) || protocol.equals(Protocol.RIAP) || ... ) and possibly leave out a confidential communication protocol/pseudoprotocol that the check code is not aware of. It can simply check this property and behave properly (e.g. throw an exception or return forbidden status) if a request that is supposed to be confidential isn't. There is an analogue in the Servlet world that is used similarly.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Kevin Conaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Is the confidential property on the Request (or Message) even necessary? > It seems to only be read by the jaxrs module and it doesn't appear to be > providing much value there.
