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HTTP key lookup request and Host: (was: Re: key server lookup protocol?)

1997-10-29 03:30:06
On 1997-10-28 23:04, Pat Richard patr(_at_)xcert(_dot_)com wrote:

Frank Brueckner wrote:

An additional question to that (older) thread:

   > PGP 5.0 sends the following request:
   > "GET /pks/lookup?op=get&exact=on&search=<Email Address|Key ID> 
HTTP/1.0"

Now, with 5.5, we have an ldap server, which will make things a lot easier.
We support the old HTTP one, but the ldap one is the way to go.

Jon Callas                                         jon(_at_)pgp(_dot_)com

So where is the document describing this and where does it sit within
the ietf-open-pgp framework. Does this exist ? Will the group accept
submissions from third parties who already have been storing PGP keys in
LDAP already, or is this not going to be part of open-pgp ? What is the
format by which 5.5 does the LDAP queries ?

Sorry to drop in, but I had some problems with most HTTP based client software.
It manifests in the ommission of the "Host:" request parameter line, which is 
needed by multi-homed servers (like say Apache) to properly detect to which of 
its served hosts the request was directed.

Is the HTTP based lookup of keys adhering to this?

( Sorry, I dropped the last draft of the document just yesterday due to time 
constraints and found this - naturally - this morning)

-- Gerald Young

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