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Authorization in Http 1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (S. Kumaran)
Thu Mar 6 13:31:57 1997
From: "S. Kumaran" <skum@wipinfo.soft.net>
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 23:52:32 +0500 (GMT+0500)
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Hello,
I have a doubt in Http 1.0 RFC-1945. The protocol says
Authorization: Scheme SP credentials
why doesn't it send what Realm it is authorizing itself.
is it because
1) A Page (Entity) can be present in only one Realm
(means there are no overlaping Realm, same
entity occuring in more than one Realm)
2) Credential valid for only a Particular Realm
(this doesn't make sense, 'cos for ex
a User may exist in more than one realm)
if 1 is not true, then if a request for a Page comes without
any Authorization header which Realm to through up.
lot of other if but questions are there.
The RFC is not very clear (for me ;)) here. Any help
is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance,
S.Kumaran.
