[Osr-101] [Fwd: [Phoenix] Neutron-Auth does not specify WWW-Authenticate header]

[Michael Wechner]

Thomas Comiotto wrote:

> Hi
>
> I think this has been discussed here before and we came to the 
> conclusion that the protocol payload has to be parsed by default, but 
> optimisation hints for specific transport protocols can be included 
> where feasable.
>
> Note that lenya 1.2 implements Neutron without the need for a custom 
> HTTP header. It does so by providing a single endpoint for neutron 
> clients. Runs just fine.

well, AFAIK Lenya doesn't support Neutron-Auth which is something very 
different than Neutron itself.

In the case of Lenya one has to first login through a common HTML form 
in order to be able to start editing through Neutron.

Michi

>
> -- 
> Bests
> Thomas
>
>
>
> Am 07.09.2006 um 16:11 schrieb Andreas Wuest:
>
>> This message was of course intended for the Neutron mailinglist.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [Phoenix] Neutron-Auth does not specify WWW-Authenticate header
>> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:09:20 +0200
>> From: Andreas Wuest <awuest at student.ethz.ch>
>> To: phoenix at wyona.org
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Neutron-Auth does not specify a value for the WWW-Authenticate header.
>> This makes it impossible to distinguish between used authentication
>> schemes on the application layer, because we have to inspect the actual
>> payload of the HTTP response to detect that we have a Neutron-Auth
>> challenge.
>>
>> I would therefore propose the following:
>>
>> WWW-Authenticate: Neutron-Auth
>>
>> This enables protocol handlers on the application layer to locate the
>> correct authentication module to use.
>>
>> -- 
>> Kind regards,
>> Andi
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>> Kind regards,
>> Andi
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