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Re: WG Review: Recharter of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)

2012-02-21 12:33:37
On 2012-02-21 19:26, Stephen Farrell wrote:

Down below, for the proposed HTTP/2.0 work it says:

 > * Reflecting modern security requirements and practices

In some earlier discussion I asked what "modern" means
there. It seems to mean at least working well with TLS,
but I'm not sure what else is meant, if anything.

In particular, I think it'd be good to try get better
(more usable, more secure etc.) HTTP authentication
defined as a built-in part of HTTP/2.0.

My initial take is that if we're not going to do this
for a major revision of the protocol, then when are we
going to do it? So I'd like to see that included.

The counter argument offered was that better HTTP
authentication is complex and probably hard to get right
and so would be better handled separately.

I believe this should be orthogonal to HTTP/2.0. Is there a specific thing that makes it impossible to use the existing authentication framework?

...

Best regards, Julian
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