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RE: Kerberos and HTTP / HTTPS - Could Kerberos tickets be

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Osipov, Michael)
Tue Aug 23 09:13:39 2016

From: "Osipov, Michael" <michael.osipov@siemens.com>
To: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>,
        "Eichhorn, Thomas"
	<Thomas.Eichhorn@klinikum-nuernberg.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:13:17 +0000
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> And not just for the server, on the user side too as a lot of client
> applications do not even check if the reply from the server is genuine
> (completing the context establishment phase for mutual authentication)
> and just accept the 200 OK code as it comes

This is actually the most important point as Simo points out. As for client
libs: libcurl does not but libserf does fully establish the context.

Michael

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