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 : The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme Author : Julian F. Reschke Filename : draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt Pages : 15 Date : 2015-01-16 Abstract: This document defines the "Basic" Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme, which transmits credentials as userid/password pairs, obfuscated by the use of Base64 encoding. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05 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