artin Atkins ha scritto:
> Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote:
>>
>>  [Request 1]
>>
>>  GET /administration/ HTTP/1.1
>>
>>
>>  [Response 1]
>>
>>  HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
>>  WWW-Authenticate: HTML realm="Administration"
>>
>>  <!DOCTYPE html>
>>  <html>
>>    ....
>>    <form action="/login">
>>      <input name="username">
>>      <input type="password" name="password">
>>      <input type="submit">
>>    </form>
>>  </html>
>>
>>
>>  [Request 2]
>>
>>  POST /login HTTP/1.1
>>
>>  username=admin&password=secret
>>
>>
>>  [Response 2]
>>
>>  HTTP/1.1 302 Found
>>  Authorization: HTML QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ== realm="Administration"
>>  Location: /administration/
>>
>>
>>  [Request 3]
>>
>>  GET /administration/ HTTP/1.1
>>  Authorization: HTML QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ== realm="Administration"
>>
>>  [Response 3]
>>
>>  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>
>>  <!DOCTYPE html>
>>  <html>
>>    ...
>>    <h1>Welcome!</h1>
>>  </html>
>>
>> The twist here is that it is up to the server to provide the authentication token and through the 'Authorization' header, give the client a way to authorize future requests.
>
> Your auth token here seems to me to be equivalent to a session cookie.
>
> If you change the "Authorization" header in Response 2 to "Set-Cookie" (and make some syntactic adjustments) then this doesn't require any changes to how deployed apps handle sessions today.
>
>
Perhaps that token was meant as a cross-session one, surviving untill an explicit logout


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