[8152] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: User authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hamilton)
Sun May 7 12:35:39 1995
Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 12:13:09 +0500
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Reply-To: martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk
From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
Dmitry Mishin writes:
| Now we have a bad mailto implementation (required) and bad newsreader
| implementation (not strongly required). Doubtfully some more bad
| implementations are needed.
Sure - but if you are going to implement (say) mailto support in your browser, ought you not to at least make a token(!) effort to find out whether the user is who they're claiming to be ?
Plus, the scenario I outlined hardly adds virtually no new code to the browser. Is this more or less worthwhile than <blink> ... </blink> ? :-)
Martin
