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

[Andreas Wuest]

Hi

On 7.9.2006 16:45 Uhr, Thomas Comiotto wrote:

> Hi Michi
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> No. Single endpoint means that you provide a set of urls for neutron 
> access. You direct neutron clients to those urls by introspection. If 
> one of these urls require user authentication / authorization it can be 
> taken for granted that the client supports neutron-auth, well - because 
> you know you deal with a neutron client.

But the client may support several authentication schemes. The server 
then chooses the one it thinks fits best. Of course, the server then has 
to tell the client in the request which one it likes to use.

-- 
Kind regards,
Andi