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

2012-02-21 21:15:09

"Barry" == Barry Leiba <barryleiba(_at_)computer(_dot_)org> writes:
    Barry> OAuth is an authorization framework, not an authentication
    Barry> one.  Please be careful to make the distinction.

    Barry> What we're looking at here is the need for an HTTP
    Barry> authentication system that (for example) doesn't send
    Barry> reusable credentials, is less susceptible to spoofing
    Barry> attacks, and so on.

and is implemented in HTTP, not in terms of HTML forms, yet has all the 
flexibility of the HTML form method?

Or is that still out of scope?

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