Re: [XHR] open method extension for TLS authentication

2011-02-04 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:42:34 +0100, Tim tim-resea...@sentinelchicken.org wrote: Anne, others, Do you have any opinions on this? There have recently been some good discussions around HTTP authentication on IETF mailing lists, and I think having some flexibility here would be useful in the long

Re: [XHR] open method extension for TLS authentication

2011-02-03 Thread Tim
Anne, others, Do you have any opinions on this? There have recently been some good discussions around HTTP authentication on IETF mailing lists, and I think having some flexibility here would be useful in the long run. tim On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:50:00AM -0800, Tim wrote: Hello, It

Re: [XHR] open method extension for TLS authentication

2011-02-03 Thread Nathan
Tim, Probably worth noting that HTTP+TLS with client side certificates already works over XHR, when the request for a cert comes in the browsers handle it in the usual way. That said, this would be /very/ useful, in fact we were just discussing this today, where I too mentioned TLS and SRP

[XHR] open method extension for TLS authentication

2011-01-06 Thread Tim
Hello, It occurred to me recently that the way in which the current draft XMLHttpRequest standard is written could be extended to allow for other forms of authentication at lower layers. In particular, it should be possible to allow for the use of pre-shared key authentication (RFC 4279) or for