[Osr-101] What's the Neutron-Auth header good for?

[Michael Wechner]

Thomas Comiotto wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Can someone enlighten me on what's the WWW-Authenticate: Neutron-Auth 
> header is good for?



it's basically custom authentication and that the server can recognize 
that client is able to handle this kind of authentication

> I thought the goal was to support basic/digest http authentication


Andi meant it's not so easy to implement, but it's on our TODO resp. 
http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4784

> and custom authentication where needed. Both variants clearly can be 
> supported without adding a custom http header AFAICS.


how else shall the server recognize that the client is able to do 
custome authentication?

cheers

Michi

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