FYI,
Carl-Uno
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Subject: RFC 2617 on HTTP Authentication
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
RFC 2617:
Title: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access
Authentication
Author(s): J. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler,
S. Lawrence, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, L. Stewart
Status: Draft Standard
Date: June 1999
Mailbox: john at math.nwu.edu, pbaker at verisign.com,
jeff at AbiSource.com, lawrence at agranat.com,
paulle at microsoft.com, luotonen at netscape.com,
stewart at OpenMarket.com
Pages: 34
Characters: 77638
Obsoletes: 2069
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-http-authentication-03.txt
URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2617.txt
"HTTP/1.0", includes the specification for a Basic Access
Authentication scheme. This scheme is not considered to be a secure
method of user authentication (unless used in conjunction with some
external secure system such as SSL, as the user name and password are
passed over the network as cleartext.
This document is a product of the HyperText Transfer Protocol Working
Group of the IETF.
This is now a Draft Standard Protocol.
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