A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Authentication Working Group of the IETF. Title : RESTful Authentication Pattern for the Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) Author(s) : Nicolas Williams Filename : draft-ietf-httpauth-rest-auth-01.txt Pages : 33 Date : 2013-08-14 Abstract: This document proposes a "RESTful" pattern of authentication for HTTP/1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. The goal is to make it easy to add authentication mechanisms to HTTP applications and to make it easy to implement them even without much help from the HTTP stack (though it is best to integrate authentication into the stack, of course). Another goal is to make it easy to reuse existing authentication mechanisms by allowing the user (that is, the server's operators) to choose what concrete authentication mechanism(s) to use. Among other benefits of RESTauth: it is orthogonal to "HTTP routers" and proxies, it results in session Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) that can be DELETEd to logout, naturally supports multi-legged authentication schemes, naturally supports clustering, and can be universally implemented on the server side with such server<->application interfaces as the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and FastCGI, among others. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-rest-auth There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpauth-rest-auth-01 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpauth-rest-auth-01 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
