On 3/23/2006 8:55 AM, "Lisa Dusseault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Mar 22, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Peter Davis wrote:
> 
>> On 3/22/2006 8:52 AM, "Robert Yates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> Not so fast ;-)  The SAML POST binding requires that the HTTP UA be a
>>> browser or at the very least it MUST be capable of rendering HTML
>>> forms
>>> and then making posts of media type
>>> `application/x-www-form-urlencoded'.
>> 
>> Fair enough.  (tho any self respecting webDav client should, which
>> is what
>> various blogging tools really are)
> 
> I can't vouch for them being "self-respecting" but here are some
> WebDAV clients that do not render HTML at all, so can't use HTML
> forms to authenticate:

I think this thread has (at least for me) is teasing out a new requirement .
It underscores the need to ensure support for non-HTML aware HTTP clients.
While many of the DAV clients Lisa enumerated use shared HTTP engines, they
may not always avail themselves of shared HTML engines.

As a result, perhaps a new requirement may look like:

- the protocol shall support the transfer/transport of security tokens over
HTTP, but does not require implementations to support the HTML form controls
<form> and the associated encodings (eg: Calendar Clients, FS-browsers,
etc...)

Maybe that requirement (or a close cousin) is already there.  I cannot seem
to drudge up the present requirements thread...

=peterd  (http://xri.net/=peterd)


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