HTTPbis Working Group J. F. Reschke
Internet-Draft greenbytes
Intended status: Informational February 20, 2012
Expires: August 21, 2012

Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme Registrations
draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-03

Abstract

This document registers Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication schemes which have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry was established.

Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor)

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The current issues list is at http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/query?component=authscheme-registrations and related documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/.

The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix Appendix B.3.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

This document registers Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication schemes which have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry was established.

2. Security Considerations

There are no security considerations related to the registration itself.

3. IANA Considerations

Appendix Appendix A provides initial registrations of HTTP authentication schemes for the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme registry at http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes (see Section 2.3 of [draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth]).

4. References

[draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P., Berners-Lee, T., Lafon, Y. and J. F. Reschke, "HTTP/1.1, part 7: Authentication", Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-18, January 2012.
[RFC2617] Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P.M., Hostetler, J.L., Lawrence, S.D., Leach, P.J., Luotonen, A. and L. Stewart, "HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication", RFC 2617, June 1999.
[RFC4559] Jaganathan, K., Zhu, L. and J. Brezak, "SPNEGO-based Kerberos and NTLM HTTP Authentication in Microsoft Windows", RFC 4559, June 2006.

Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents

Authentication Scheme Name Reference Notes
Basic [RFC2617], Section 2
Digest [RFC2617], Section 3
Negotiate [RFC4559], Section 3 This authentication scheme violates both HTTP semantics (being connection-oriented) and syntax (use of syntax incompatible with the WWW-Authenticate and Authorization header field syntax).

Appendix B. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)

Appendix B.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-00

Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth reference.

Appendix B.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-01

Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth reference.

Closed issues:

Appendix B.3. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-02

Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth reference.

Author's Address

Julian F. Reschke greenbytes GmbH Hafenweg 16 Muenster, NW 48155 Germany EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de URI: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/