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379 | </style><link rel="Contents" href="#rfc.toc"> |
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380 | <link rel="Author" href="#rfc.authors"> |
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381 | <link rel="Copyright" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice"> |
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382 | <link rel="Index" href="#rfc.index"> |
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383 | <link rel="Chapter" title="1 Introduction" href="#rfc.section.1"> |
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384 | <link rel="Chapter" title="2 Access Authentication Framework" href="#rfc.section.2"> |
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385 | <link rel="Chapter" title="3 Status Code Definitions" href="#rfc.section.3"> |
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386 | <link rel="Chapter" title="4 Header Field Definitions" href="#rfc.section.4"> |
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387 | <link rel="Chapter" title="5 IANA Considerations" href="#rfc.section.5"> |
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388 | <link rel="Chapter" title="6 Security Considerations" href="#rfc.section.6"> |
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389 | <link rel="Chapter" title="7 Acknowledgments" href="#rfc.section.7"> |
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390 | <link rel="Chapter" href="#rfc.section.8" title="8 References"> |
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391 | <link rel="Appendix" title="A Changes from RFCs 2616 and 2617" href="#rfc.section.A"> |
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392 | <link rel="Appendix" title="B Collected ABNF" href="#rfc.section.B"> |
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393 | <link rel="Appendix" title="C Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)" href="#rfc.section.C"> |
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396 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Fielding, R."> |
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404 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Reschke, J. F."> |
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409 | <meta name="description" content="The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 7 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 7 defines the HTTP Authentication framework."> |
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412 | <table class="header"> |
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413 | <tbody> |
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414 | <tr> |
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415 | <td class="left">HTTPbis Working Group</td> |
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416 | <td class="right">R. Fielding, Editor</td> |
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417 | </tr> |
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418 | <tr> |
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419 | <td class="left">Internet-Draft</td> |
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420 | <td class="right">Adobe</td> |
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421 | </tr> |
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422 | <tr> |
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423 | <td class="left">Obsoletes: <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616">2616</a> (if approved) |
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424 | </td> |
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425 | <td class="right">J. Gettys</td> |
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426 | </tr> |
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427 | <tr> |
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428 | <td class="left">Updates: <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617">2617</a> (if approved) |
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429 | </td> |
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430 | <td class="right">Alcatel-Lucent</td> |
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431 | </tr> |
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432 | <tr> |
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433 | <td class="left">Intended status: Standards Track</td> |
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434 | <td class="right">J. Mogul</td> |
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435 | </tr> |
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436 | <tr> |
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437 | <td class="left">Expires: February 27, 2012</td> |
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438 | <td class="right">HP</td> |
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439 | </tr> |
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440 | <tr> |
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441 | <td class="left"></td> |
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442 | <td class="right">H. Frystyk</td> |
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443 | </tr> |
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444 | <tr> |
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445 | <td class="left"></td> |
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446 | <td class="right">Microsoft</td> |
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447 | </tr> |
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448 | <tr> |
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449 | <td class="left"></td> |
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450 | <td class="right">L. Masinter</td> |
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451 | </tr> |
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452 | <tr> |
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453 | <td class="left"></td> |
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454 | <td class="right">Adobe</td> |
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455 | </tr> |
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456 | <tr> |
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457 | <td class="left"></td> |
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458 | <td class="right">P. Leach</td> |
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459 | </tr> |
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460 | <tr> |
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461 | <td class="left"></td> |
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462 | <td class="right">Microsoft</td> |
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463 | </tr> |
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464 | <tr> |
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465 | <td class="left"></td> |
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466 | <td class="right">T. Berners-Lee</td> |
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467 | </tr> |
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468 | <tr> |
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469 | <td class="left"></td> |
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470 | <td class="right">W3C/MIT</td> |
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471 | </tr> |
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472 | <tr> |
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473 | <td class="left"></td> |
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474 | <td class="right">Y. Lafon, Editor</td> |
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475 | </tr> |
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476 | <tr> |
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477 | <td class="left"></td> |
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478 | <td class="right">W3C</td> |
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479 | </tr> |
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480 | <tr> |
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481 | <td class="left"></td> |
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482 | <td class="right">J. Reschke, Editor</td> |
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483 | </tr> |
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484 | <tr> |
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485 | <td class="left"></td> |
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486 | <td class="right">greenbytes</td> |
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487 | </tr> |
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488 | <tr> |
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489 | <td class="left"></td> |
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490 | <td class="right">August 26, 2011</td> |
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491 | </tr> |
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492 | </tbody> |
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493 | </table> |
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494 | <p class="title">HTTP/1.1, part 7: Authentication<br><span class="filename">draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-latest</span></p> |
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495 | <h1 id="rfc.abstract"><a href="#rfc.abstract">Abstract</a></h1> |
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496 | <p>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information |
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497 | systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 7 of the |
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498 | seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. |
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499 | </p> |
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500 | <p>Part 7 defines the HTTP Authentication framework.</p> |
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501 | <h1 id="rfc.note.1"><a href="#rfc.note.1">Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor)</a></h1> |
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502 | <p>Discussion of this draft should take place on the HTTPBIS working group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived |
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503 | at <<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/">http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/</a>>. |
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504 | </p> |
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505 | <p>The current issues list is at <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/3">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/3</a>> and related documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/</a>>. |
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506 | </p> |
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507 | <p>The changes in this draft are summarized in <a href="#changes.since.16" title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-16">Appendix C.18</a>. |
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508 | </p> |
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509 | <h1><a id="rfc.status" href="#rfc.status">Status of This Memo</a></h1> |
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510 | <p>This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.</p> |
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511 | <p>Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute |
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512 | working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet-Drafts is at <a href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/">http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/</a>. |
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513 | </p> |
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514 | <p>Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other |
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515 | documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as “work |
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516 | in progress”. |
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517 | </p> |
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518 | <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on February 27, 2012.</p> |
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519 | <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1> |
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520 | <p>Copyright © 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p> |
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531 | it into languages other than English. |
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532 | </p> |
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533 | <hr class="noprint"> |
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534 | <h1 class="np" id="rfc.toc"><a href="#rfc.toc">Table of Contents</a></h1> |
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535 | <ul class="toc"> |
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536 | <li>1. <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a><ul> |
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537 | <li>1.1 <a href="#intro.requirements">Requirements</a></li> |
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538 | <li>1.2 <a href="#notation">Syntax Notation</a><ul> |
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539 | <li>1.2.1 <a href="#core.rules">Core Rules</a></li> |
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540 | </ul> |
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541 | </li> |
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542 | </ul> |
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543 | </li> |
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544 | <li>2. <a href="#access.authentication.framework">Access Authentication Framework</a><ul> |
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545 | <li>2.1 <a href="#challenge.and.response">Challenge and Response</a></li> |
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546 | <li>2.2 <a href="#protection.space">Protection Space (Realm)</a></li> |
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547 | <li>2.3 <a href="#authentication.scheme.registry">Authentication Scheme Registry</a><ul> |
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548 | <li>2.3.1 <a href="#considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes">Considerations for New Authentication Schemes</a></li> |
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549 | </ul> |
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550 | </li> |
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551 | </ul> |
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552 | </li> |
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553 | <li>3. <a href="#status.code.definitions">Status Code Definitions</a><ul> |
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554 | <li>3.1 <a href="#status.401">401 Unauthorized</a></li> |
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555 | <li>3.2 <a href="#status.407">407 Proxy Authentication Required</a></li> |
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556 | </ul> |
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557 | </li> |
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558 | <li>4. <a href="#header.field.definitions">Header Field Definitions</a><ul> |
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559 | <li>4.1 <a href="#header.authorization">Authorization</a></li> |
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560 | <li>4.2 <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate">Proxy-Authenticate</a></li> |
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561 | <li>4.3 <a href="#header.proxy-authorization">Proxy-Authorization</a></li> |
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562 | <li>4.4 <a href="#header.www-authenticate">WWW-Authenticate</a></li> |
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563 | </ul> |
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564 | </li> |
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565 | <li>5. <a href="#IANA.considerations">IANA Considerations</a><ul> |
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566 | <li>5.1 <a href="#authentication.scheme.registration">Authenticaton Scheme Registry</a></li> |
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567 | <li>5.2 <a href="#status.code.registration">Status Code Registration</a></li> |
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568 | <li>5.3 <a href="#header.field.registration">Header Field Registration</a></li> |
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569 | </ul> |
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570 | </li> |
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571 | <li>6. <a href="#security.considerations">Security Considerations</a><ul> |
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572 | <li>6.1 <a href="#auth.credentials.and.idle.clients">Authentication Credentials and Idle Clients</a></li> |
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573 | </ul> |
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574 | </li> |
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575 | <li>7. <a href="#acks">Acknowledgments</a></li> |
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576 | <li>8. <a href="#rfc.references">References</a><ul> |
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577 | <li>8.1 <a href="#rfc.references.1">Normative References</a></li> |
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578 | <li>8.2 <a href="#rfc.references.2">Informative References</a></li> |
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579 | </ul> |
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580 | </li> |
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581 | <li><a href="#rfc.authors">Authors' Addresses</a></li> |
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582 | <li>A. <a href="#changes.from.rfc.2616">Changes from RFCs 2616 and 2617</a></li> |
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583 | <li>B. <a href="#collected.abnf">Collected ABNF</a></li> |
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584 | <li>C. <a href="#change.log">Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)</a><ul> |
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585 | <li>C.1 <a href="#rfc.section.C.1">Since RFC 2616</a></li> |
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586 | <li>C.2 <a href="#rfc.section.C.2">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-00</a></li> |
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587 | <li>C.3 <a href="#rfc.section.C.3">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-01</a></li> |
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588 | <li>C.4 <a href="#changes.since.02">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-02</a></li> |
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589 | <li>C.5 <a href="#changes.since.03">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-03</a></li> |
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590 | <li>C.6 <a href="#changes.since.04">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-04</a></li> |
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591 | <li>C.7 <a href="#changes.since.05">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-05</a></li> |
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592 | <li>C.8 <a href="#changes.since.06">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-06</a></li> |
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593 | <li>C.9 <a href="#changes.since.07">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-07</a></li> |
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594 | <li>C.10 <a href="#changes.since.08">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-08</a></li> |
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595 | <li>C.11 <a href="#changes.since.09">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-09</a></li> |
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596 | <li>C.12 <a href="#changes.since.10">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-10</a></li> |
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597 | <li>C.13 <a href="#changes.since.11">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-11</a></li> |
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598 | <li>C.14 <a href="#changes.since.12">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-12</a></li> |
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599 | <li>C.15 <a href="#changes.since.13">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-13</a></li> |
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600 | <li>C.16 <a href="#changes.since.14">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-14</a></li> |
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601 | <li>C.17 <a href="#changes.since.15">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-15</a></li> |
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602 | <li>C.18 <a href="#changes.since.16">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-16</a></li> |
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603 | </ul> |
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604 | </li> |
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605 | <li><a href="#rfc.index">Index</a></li> |
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606 | </ul> |
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607 | <h1 id="rfc.section.1" class="np"><a href="#rfc.section.1">1.</a> <a id="introduction" href="#introduction">Introduction</a></h1> |
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608 | <p id="rfc.section.1.p.1">This document defines HTTP/1.1 access control and authentication. It includes the relevant parts of <cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1" id="rfc.xref.RFC2616.1">RFC 2616</cite> with only minor changes, plus the general framework for HTTP authentication, as previously defined in "HTTP Authentication: |
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609 | Basic and Digest Access Authentication" (<a href="#RFC2617" id="rfc.xref.RFC2617.1"><cite title="HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication">[RFC2617]</cite></a>). |
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610 | </p> |
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611 | <p id="rfc.section.1.p.2">HTTP provides several <em class="bcp14">OPTIONAL</em> challenge-response authentication mechanisms which can be used by a server to challenge a client request and by a client to |
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612 | provide authentication information. The "basic" and "digest" authentication schemes continue to be specified in <cite title="HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication" id="rfc.xref.RFC2617.2">RFC 2617</cite>. |
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613 | </p> |
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614 | <h2 id="rfc.section.1.1"><a href="#rfc.section.1.1">1.1</a> <a id="intro.requirements" href="#intro.requirements">Requirements</a></h2> |
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615 | <p id="rfc.section.1.1.p.1">The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" |
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616 | in this document are to be interpreted as described in <a href="#RFC2119" id="rfc.xref.RFC2119.1"><cite title="Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels">[RFC2119]</cite></a>. |
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617 | </p> |
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618 | <p id="rfc.section.1.1.p.2">An implementation is not compliant if it fails to satisfy one or more of the "MUST" or "REQUIRED" level requirements for the |
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619 | protocols it implements. An implementation that satisfies all the "MUST" or "REQUIRED" level and all the "SHOULD" level requirements |
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620 | for its protocols is said to be "unconditionally compliant"; one that satisfies all the "MUST" level requirements but not |
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621 | all the "SHOULD" level requirements for its protocols is said to be "conditionally compliant". |
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622 | </p> |
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623 | <h2 id="rfc.section.1.2"><a href="#rfc.section.1.2">1.2</a> <a id="notation" href="#notation">Syntax Notation</a></h2> |
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624 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.p.1">This specification uses the ABNF syntax defined in <a href="p1-messaging.html#notation" title="Syntax Notation">Section 1.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a> (which extends the syntax defined in <a href="#RFC5234" id="rfc.xref.RFC5234.1"><cite title="Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF">[RFC5234]</cite></a> with a list rule). <a href="#collected.abnf" title="Collected ABNF">Appendix B</a> shows the collected ABNF, with the list rule expanded. |
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625 | </p> |
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626 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.p.2">The following core rules are included by reference, as defined in <a href="#RFC5234" id="rfc.xref.RFC5234.2"><cite title="Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF">[RFC5234]</cite></a>, <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234#appendix-B.1">Appendix B.1</a>: ALPHA (letters), CR (carriage return), CRLF (CR LF), CTL (controls), DIGIT (decimal 0-9), DQUOTE (double quote), HEXDIG |
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627 | (hexadecimal 0-9/A-F/a-f), LF (line feed), OCTET (any 8-bit sequence of data), SP (space), VCHAR (any visible USASCII character), |
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628 | and WSP (whitespace). |
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629 | </p> |
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630 | <h3 id="rfc.section.1.2.1"><a href="#rfc.section.1.2.1">1.2.1</a> <a id="core.rules" href="#core.rules">Core Rules</a></h3> |
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631 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.1.p.1">The core rules below are defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.2"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>: |
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632 | </p> |
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633 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.1"></div><pre class="inline"> <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">BWS</a> = <BWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.3"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#basic.rules" title="Basic Rules">Section 1.2.2</a>> |
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634 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> = <OWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.4"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#basic.rules" title="Basic Rules">Section 1.2.2</a>> |
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635 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">quoted-string</a> = <quoted-string, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.5"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.rules" title="Common Field ABNF Rules">Section 3.2.3</a>> |
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636 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">token</a> = <token, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.6"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.rules" title="Common Field ABNF Rules">Section 3.2.3</a>> |
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637 | </pre><h1 id="rfc.section.2"><a href="#rfc.section.2">2.</a> <a id="access.authentication.framework" href="#access.authentication.framework">Access Authentication Framework</a></h1> |
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638 | <h2 id="rfc.section.2.1"><a href="#rfc.section.2.1">2.1</a> <a id="challenge.and.response" href="#challenge.and.response">Challenge and Response</a></h2> |
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639 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.1">HTTP provides a simple challenge-response authentication mechanism that can be used by a server to challenge a client request |
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640 | and by a client to provide authentication information. It uses an extensible, case-insensitive token to identify the authentication |
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641 | scheme, followed by additional information necessary for achieving authentication via that scheme. The latter can either be |
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642 | a comma-separated list of attribute-value pairs or a single sequence of characters capable of holding base64-encoded information. |
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643 | </p> |
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644 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.2"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.a.1"></span><span id="rfc.iref.a.2"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.1"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.2"></span><span id="rfc.iref.b.1"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.3"></span> auth-scheme = <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">token</a> |
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645 | |
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646 | auth-param = <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">token</a> <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">BWS</a> "=" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">BWS</a> ( <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">token</a> / <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">quoted-string</a> ) |
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647 | |
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648 | b64token = 1*( <a href="#notation" class="smpl">ALPHA</a> / <a href="#notation" class="smpl">DIGIT</a> / |
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649 | "-" / "." / "_" / "~" / "+" / "/" ) *"=" |
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650 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.3">The "b64token" syntax allows the 66 unreserved URI characters (<a href="#RFC3986" id="rfc.xref.RFC3986.1"><cite title="Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax">[RFC3986]</cite></a>), plus a few others, so that it can hold a base64, base64url (URL and filename safe alphabet), base32, or base16 (hex) encoding, |
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651 | with or without padding, but excluding whitespace (<a href="#RFC4648" id="rfc.xref.RFC4648.1"><cite title="The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings">[RFC4648]</cite></a>). |
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652 | </p> |
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653 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.4">The 401 (Unauthorized) response message is used by an origin server to challenge the authorization of a user agent. This response <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include a WWW-Authenticate header field containing at least one challenge applicable to the requested resource. |
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654 | </p> |
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655 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.5">The 407 (Proxy Authentication Required) response message is used by a proxy to challenge the authorization of a client and <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include a Proxy-Authenticate header field containing at least one challenge applicable to the proxy for the requested resource. |
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656 | </p> |
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657 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.3"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.c.1"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.4"></span> <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">challenge</a> = <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">auth-scheme</a> [ 1*<a href="#notation" class="smpl">SP</a> ( <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">b64token</a> / #<a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">auth-param</a> ) ] |
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658 | </pre><div class="note" id="rfc.section.2.1.p.7"> |
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659 | <p> <b>Note:</b> User agents will need to take special care in parsing the WWW-Authenticate and Proxy-Authenticate header field values because |
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660 | they can contain more than one challenge, or if more than one of each is provided, since the contents of a challenge can itself |
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661 | contain a comma-separated list of authentication parameters. |
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662 | </p> |
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663 | </div> |
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664 | <div class="note" id="rfc.section.2.1.p.8"> |
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665 | <p> <b>Note:</b> Many browsers fail to parse challenges containing unknown schemes. A workaround for this problem is to list well-supported |
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666 | schemes (such as "basic") first. |
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667 | </p> |
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668 | </div> |
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669 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.9">A user agent that wishes to authenticate itself with an origin server — usually, but not necessarily, after receiving a 401 |
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670 | (Unauthorized) — <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> do so by including an Authorization header field with the request. |
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671 | </p> |
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672 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.10">A client that wishes to authenticate itself with a proxy — usually, but not necessarily, after receiving a 407 (Proxy Authentication |
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673 | Required) — <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> do so by including a Proxy-Authorization header field with the request. |
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674 | </p> |
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675 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.11">Both the Authorization field value and the Proxy-Authorization field value consist of credentials containing the authentication |
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676 | information of the client for the realm of the resource being requested. The user agent <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> choose to use one of the challenges with the strongest auth-scheme it understands and request credentials from the user based |
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677 | upon that challenge. |
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678 | </p> |
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679 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.4"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.c.2"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.5"></span> <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">credentials</a> = <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">auth-scheme</a> [ 1*<a href="#notation" class="smpl">SP</a> ( <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">b64token</a> / #<a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">auth-param</a> ) ] |
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680 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.13">If the origin server does not wish to accept the credentials sent with a request, it <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> return a 401 (Unauthorized) response. The response <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include a WWW-Authenticate header field containing at least one (possibly new) challenge applicable to the requested resource. |
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681 | </p> |
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682 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.14">If a proxy does not accept the credentials sent with a request, it <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> return a 407 (Proxy Authentication Required). The response <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include a Proxy-Authenticate header field containing a (possibly new) challenge applicable to the proxy for the requested |
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683 | resource. |
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684 | </p> |
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685 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.15">The HTTP protocol does not restrict applications to this simple challenge-response mechanism for access authentication. Additional |
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686 | mechanisms <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be used, such as encryption at the transport level or via message encapsulation, and with additional header fields specifying |
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687 | authentication information. However, such additional mechanisms are not defined by this specification. |
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688 | </p> |
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689 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.16">Proxies <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> forward the WWW-Authenticate and Authorization headers unmodified and follow the rules found in <a href="#header.authorization" id="rfc.xref.header.authorization.1" title="Authorization">Section 4.1</a>. |
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690 | </p> |
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691 | <div id="rfc.iref.p.1"></div> |
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692 | <div id="rfc.iref.r.1"></div> |
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693 | <h2 id="rfc.section.2.2"><a href="#rfc.section.2.2">2.2</a> <a id="protection.space" href="#protection.space">Protection Space (Realm)</a></h2> |
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694 | <p id="rfc.section.2.2.p.1">The authentication parameter realm is reserved for use by authentication schemes that wish to indicate the scope of protection:</p> |
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695 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.5"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.r.2"></span><span id="rfc.iref.r.3"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.6"></span> realm = "realm" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">BWS</a> "=" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">BWS</a> realm-value |
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696 | realm-value = quoted-string |
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697 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.2.2.p.3">A <dfn>protection space</dfn> is defined by the canonical root URI (the scheme and authority components of the effective request URI; see <a href="p1-messaging.html#effective.request.uri" title="Effective Request URI">Section 4.3</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.7"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>) of the server being accessed, in combination with the realm value if present. These realms allow the protected resources |
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698 | on a server to be partitioned into a set of protection spaces, each with its own authentication scheme and/or authorization |
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699 | database. The realm value is a string, generally assigned by the origin server, which can have additional semantics specific |
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700 | to the authentication scheme. Note that there can be multiple challenges with the same auth-scheme but different realms. |
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701 | </p> |
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702 | <p id="rfc.section.2.2.p.4">The protection space determines the domain over which credentials can be automatically applied. If a prior request has been |
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703 | authorized, the same credentials <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be reused for all other requests within that protection space for a period of time determined by the authentication scheme, |
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704 | parameters, and/or user preference. Unless otherwise defined by the authentication scheme, a single protection space cannot |
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705 | extend outside the scope of its server. |
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706 | </p> |
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707 | <h2 id="rfc.section.2.3"><a href="#rfc.section.2.3">2.3</a> <a id="authentication.scheme.registry" href="#authentication.scheme.registry">Authentication Scheme Registry</a></h2> |
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708 | <p id="rfc.section.2.3.p.1">The HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry defines the name space for the authentication schemes in challenges and credentials.</p> |
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709 | <p id="rfc.section.2.3.p.2">Registrations <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include the following fields: |
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710 | </p> |
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711 | <ul> |
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712 | <li>Authentication Scheme Name</li> |
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713 | <li>Pointer to specification text</li> |
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714 | <li>Notes (optional)</li> |
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715 | </ul> |
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716 | <p id="rfc.section.2.3.p.3">Values to be added to this name space are subject to IETF review (<a href="#RFC5226" id="rfc.xref.RFC5226.1"><cite title="Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs">[RFC5226]</cite></a>, <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5226#section-4.1">Section 4.1</a>). |
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717 | </p> |
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718 | <p id="rfc.section.2.3.p.4">The registry itself is maintained at <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes</a>>. |
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719 | </p> |
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720 | <h3 id="rfc.section.2.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.2.3.1">2.3.1</a> <a id="considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes" href="#considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes">Considerations for New Authentication Schemes</a></h3> |
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721 | <p id="rfc.section.2.3.1.p.1">There are certain aspects of the HTTP Authentication Framework that put constraints on how new authentication schemes can |
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722 | work: |
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723 | </p> |
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724 | <p id="rfc.section.2.3.1.p.2"> </p> |
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725 | <ul> |
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726 | <li> |
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727 | <p>Authentication schemes need to be compatible with the inherent constraints of HTTP; for instance, that messages need to keep |
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728 | their semantics when inspected in isolation, thus an authentication scheme can not bind information to the TCP session over |
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729 | which the message was received (see <a href="p1-messaging.html#message-orientation-and-buffering" title="Message Orientation and Buffering">Section 2.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.8"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>). |
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730 | </p> |
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731 | </li> |
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732 | <li> |
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733 | <p>The authentication parameter "realm" is reserved for defining Protection Spaces as defined in <a href="#protection.space" title="Protection Space (Realm)">Section 2.2</a>. New schemes <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> use it in a way incompatible with that definition. |
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734 | </p> |
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735 | </li> |
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736 | <li> |
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737 | <p>The "b64token" notation was introduced for compatibility with existing authentication schemes and can only be used once per |
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738 | challenge/credentials. New schemes thus ought to use the "auth-param" syntax instead, because otherwise future extensions |
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739 | will be impossible. |
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740 | </p> |
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741 | </li> |
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742 | <li> |
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743 | <p>Authentication schemes need to document whether they are usable in origin-server authentication (i.e., using WWW-Authenticate), |
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744 | and/or proxy authentication (i.e., using Proxy-Authenticate). |
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745 | </p> |
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746 | </li> |
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747 | <li> |
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748 | <p>The credentials carried in an Authorization header field are specific to the User Agent, and therefore have the same effect |
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749 | on HTTP caches as the "private" Cache-Control response directive, within the scope of the request they appear in. |
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750 | </p> |
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751 | <p>Therefore, new authentication schemes which choose not to carry credentials in the Authorization header (e.g., using a newly |
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752 | defined header) will need to explicitly disallow caching, by mandating the use of either Cache-Control request directives |
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753 | (e.g., "no-store") or response directives (e.g., "private"). |
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754 | </p> |
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755 | </li> |
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756 | </ul> |
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757 | <h1 id="rfc.section.3"><a href="#rfc.section.3">3.</a> <a id="status.code.definitions" href="#status.code.definitions">Status Code Definitions</a></h1> |
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758 | <div id="rfc.iref.15"></div> |
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759 | <div id="rfc.iref.s.1"></div> |
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760 | <h2 id="rfc.section.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.3.1">3.1</a> <a id="status.401" href="#status.401">401 Unauthorized</a></h2> |
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761 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.1">The request requires user authentication. The response <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include a WWW-Authenticate header field (<a href="#header.www-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.1" title="WWW-Authenticate">Section 4.4</a>) containing a challenge applicable to the target resource. The client <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> repeat the request with a suitable Authorization header field (<a href="#header.authorization" id="rfc.xref.header.authorization.2" title="Authorization">Section 4.1</a>). If the request already included Authorization credentials, then the 401 response indicates that authorization has been |
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762 | refused for those credentials. If the 401 response contains the same challenge as the prior response, and the user agent has |
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763 | already attempted authentication at least once, then the user <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> be presented the representation that was given in the response, since that representation might include relevant diagnostic |
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764 | information. |
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765 | </p> |
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766 | <div id="rfc.iref.16"></div> |
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767 | <div id="rfc.iref.s.2"></div> |
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768 | <h2 id="rfc.section.3.2"><a href="#rfc.section.3.2">3.2</a> <a id="status.407" href="#status.407">407 Proxy Authentication Required</a></h2> |
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769 | <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.1">This code is similar to 401 (Unauthorized), but indicates that the client ought to first authenticate itself with the proxy. |
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770 | The proxy <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> return a Proxy-Authenticate header field (<a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.proxy-authenticate.1" title="Proxy-Authenticate">Section 4.2</a>) containing a challenge applicable to the proxy for the target resource. The client <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> repeat the request with a suitable Proxy-Authorization header field (<a href="#header.proxy-authorization" id="rfc.xref.header.proxy-authorization.1" title="Proxy-Authorization">Section 4.3</a>). |
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771 | </p> |
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772 | <h1 id="rfc.section.4"><a href="#rfc.section.4">4.</a> <a id="header.field.definitions" href="#header.field.definitions">Header Field Definitions</a></h1> |
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773 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.1">This section defines the syntax and semantics of HTTP/1.1 header fields related to authentication.</p> |
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774 | <div id="rfc.iref.a.3"></div> |
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775 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.1"></div> |
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776 | <h2 id="rfc.section.4.1"><a href="#rfc.section.4.1">4.1</a> <a id="header.authorization" href="#header.authorization">Authorization</a></h2> |
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777 | <p id="rfc.section.4.1.p.1">The "Authorization" header field allows a user agent to authenticate itself with a server — usually, but not necessarily, |
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778 | after receiving a 401 (Unauthorized) response. Its value consists of credentials containing information of the user agent |
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779 | for the realm of the resource being requested. |
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780 | </p> |
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781 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.6"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.7"></span> <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a> = <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">credentials</a> |
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782 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.4.1.p.3">If a request is authenticated and a realm specified, the same credentials <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> be valid for all other requests within this realm (assuming that the authentication scheme itself does not require otherwise, |
---|
783 | such as credentials that vary according to a challenge value or using synchronized clocks). |
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784 | </p> |
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785 | <p id="rfc.section.4.1.p.4">When a shared cache (see <a href="p6-cache.html#shared.and.non-shared.caches">Section 1.2</a> of <a href="#Part6" id="rfc.xref.Part6.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching">[Part6]</cite></a>) receives a request containing an Authorization field, it <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> return the corresponding response as a reply to any other request, unless one of the following specific exceptions holds: |
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786 | </p> |
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787 | <p id="rfc.section.4.1.p.5"> </p> |
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788 | <ol> |
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789 | <li>If the response includes the "s-maxage" cache-control directive, the cache <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> use that response in replying to a subsequent request. But (if the specified maximum age has passed) a proxy cache <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> first revalidate it with the origin server, using the header fields from the new request to allow the origin server to authenticate |
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790 | the new request. (This is the defined behavior for s-maxage.) If the response includes "s-maxage=0", the proxy <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> always revalidate it before re-using it. |
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791 | </li> |
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792 | <li>If the response includes the "must-revalidate" cache-control directive, the cache <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> use that response in replying to a subsequent request. But if the response is stale, all caches <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> first revalidate it with the origin server, using the header fields from the new request to allow the origin server to authenticate |
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793 | the new request. |
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794 | </li> |
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795 | <li>If the response includes the "public" cache-control directive, it <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be returned in reply to any subsequent request. |
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796 | </li> |
---|
797 | </ol> |
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798 | <div id="rfc.iref.p.2"></div> |
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799 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.2"></div> |
---|
800 | <h2 id="rfc.section.4.2"><a href="#rfc.section.4.2">4.2</a> <a id="header.proxy-authenticate" href="#header.proxy-authenticate">Proxy-Authenticate</a></h2> |
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801 | <p id="rfc.section.4.2.p.1">The "Proxy-Authenticate" header field consists of a challenge that indicates the authentication scheme and parameters applicable |
---|
802 | to the proxy for this effective request URI (<a href="p1-messaging.html#effective.request.uri" title="Effective Request URI">Section 4.3</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.9"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>). It <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included as part of a 407 (Proxy Authentication Required) response. |
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803 | </p> |
---|
804 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.7"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.8"></span> <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" class="smpl">Proxy-Authenticate</a> = 1#<a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">challenge</a> |
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805 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.4.2.p.3">Unlike WWW-Authenticate, the Proxy-Authenticate header field applies only to the current connection and <em class="bcp14">SHOULD NOT</em> be passed on to downstream clients. However, an intermediate proxy might need to obtain its own credentials by requesting |
---|
806 | them from the downstream client, which in some circumstances will appear as if the proxy is forwarding the Proxy-Authenticate |
---|
807 | header field. |
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808 | </p> |
---|
809 | <div id="rfc.iref.p.3"></div> |
---|
810 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.3"></div> |
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811 | <h2 id="rfc.section.4.3"><a href="#rfc.section.4.3">4.3</a> <a id="header.proxy-authorization" href="#header.proxy-authorization">Proxy-Authorization</a></h2> |
---|
812 | <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.1">The "Proxy-Authorization" header field allows the client to identify itself (or its user) to a proxy which requires authentication. |
---|
813 | Its value consists of credentials containing the authentication information of the user agent for the proxy and/or realm of |
---|
814 | the resource being requested. |
---|
815 | </p> |
---|
816 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.8"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.9"></span> <a href="#header.proxy-authorization" class="smpl">Proxy-Authorization</a> = <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">credentials</a> |
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817 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.3">Unlike Authorization, the Proxy-Authorization header field applies only to the next outbound proxy that demanded authentication |
---|
818 | using the Proxy-Authenticate field. When multiple proxies are used in a chain, the Proxy-Authorization header field is consumed |
---|
819 | by the first outbound proxy that was expecting to receive credentials. A proxy <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> relay the credentials from the client request to the next proxy if that is the mechanism by which the proxies cooperatively |
---|
820 | authenticate a given request. |
---|
821 | </p> |
---|
822 | <div id="rfc.iref.w.1"></div> |
---|
823 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.4"></div> |
---|
824 | <h2 id="rfc.section.4.4"><a href="#rfc.section.4.4">4.4</a> <a id="header.www-authenticate" href="#header.www-authenticate">WWW-Authenticate</a></h2> |
---|
825 | <p id="rfc.section.4.4.p.1">The "WWW-Authenticate" header field consists of at least one challenge that indicates the authentication scheme(s) and parameters |
---|
826 | applicable to the effective request URI (<a href="p1-messaging.html#effective.request.uri" title="Effective Request URI">Section 4.3</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.10"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>). |
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827 | </p> |
---|
828 | <p id="rfc.section.4.4.p.2">It <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included in 401 (Unauthorized) response messages and <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be included in other response messages to indicate that supplying credentials (or different credentials) might affect the |
---|
829 | response. |
---|
830 | </p> |
---|
831 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.9"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.10"></span> <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a> = 1#<a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">challenge</a> |
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832 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.4.4.p.4">User agents are advised to take special care in parsing the WWW-Authenticate field value as it might contain more than one |
---|
833 | challenge, or if more than one WWW-Authenticate header field is provided, the contents of a challenge itself can contain a |
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834 | comma-separated list of authentication parameters. |
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835 | </p> |
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836 | <h1 id="rfc.section.5"><a href="#rfc.section.5">5.</a> <a id="IANA.considerations" href="#IANA.considerations">IANA Considerations</a></h1> |
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837 | <h2 id="rfc.section.5.1"><a href="#rfc.section.5.1">5.1</a> <a id="authentication.scheme.registration" href="#authentication.scheme.registration">Authenticaton Scheme Registry</a></h2> |
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838 | <p id="rfc.section.5.1.p.1">The registration procedure for HTTP Authentication Schemes is defined by <a href="#authentication.scheme.registry" title="Authentication Scheme Registry">Section 2.3</a> of this document. |
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839 | </p> |
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840 | <p id="rfc.section.5.1.p.2">The HTTP Method Authentication Scheme shall be created at <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes</a>>. |
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841 | </p> |
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842 | <h2 id="rfc.section.5.2"><a href="#rfc.section.5.2">5.2</a> <a id="status.code.registration" href="#status.code.registration">Status Code Registration</a></h2> |
---|
843 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.1">The HTTP Status Code Registry located at <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes</a>> shall be updated with the registrations below: |
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844 | </p> |
---|
845 | <div id="rfc.table.1"> |
---|
846 | <div id="iana.status.code.registration.table"></div> |
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847 | <table class="tt full left" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> |
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848 | <thead> |
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849 | <tr> |
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850 | <th>Value</th> |
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851 | <th>Description</th> |
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852 | <th>Reference</th> |
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853 | </tr> |
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854 | </thead> |
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855 | <tbody> |
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856 | <tr> |
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857 | <td class="left">401</td> |
---|
858 | <td class="left">Unauthorized</td> |
---|
859 | <td class="left"> <a href="#status.401" id="rfc.xref.status.401.1" title="401 Unauthorized">Section 3.1</a> |
---|
860 | </td> |
---|
861 | </tr> |
---|
862 | <tr> |
---|
863 | <td class="left">407</td> |
---|
864 | <td class="left">Proxy Authentication Required</td> |
---|
865 | <td class="left"> <a href="#status.407" id="rfc.xref.status.407.1" title="407 Proxy Authentication Required">Section 3.2</a> |
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866 | </td> |
---|
867 | </tr> |
---|
868 | </tbody> |
---|
869 | </table> |
---|
870 | </div> |
---|
871 | <h2 id="rfc.section.5.3"><a href="#rfc.section.5.3">5.3</a> <a id="header.field.registration" href="#header.field.registration">Header Field Registration</a></h2> |
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872 | <p id="rfc.section.5.3.p.1">The Message Header Field Registry located at <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-header-index.html">http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-header-index.html</a>> shall be updated with the permanent registrations below (see <a href="#RFC3864" id="rfc.xref.RFC3864.1"><cite title="Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields">[RFC3864]</cite></a>): |
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873 | </p> |
---|
874 | <div id="rfc.table.2"> |
---|
875 | <div id="iana.header.registration.table"></div> |
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876 | <table class="tt full left" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> |
---|
877 | <thead> |
---|
878 | <tr> |
---|
879 | <th>Header Field Name</th> |
---|
880 | <th>Protocol</th> |
---|
881 | <th>Status</th> |
---|
882 | <th>Reference</th> |
---|
883 | </tr> |
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884 | </thead> |
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885 | <tbody> |
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886 | <tr> |
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887 | <td class="left">Authorization</td> |
---|
888 | <td class="left">http</td> |
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889 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
---|
890 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.authorization" id="rfc.xref.header.authorization.3" title="Authorization">Section 4.1</a> |
---|
891 | </td> |
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892 | </tr> |
---|
893 | <tr> |
---|
894 | <td class="left">Proxy-Authenticate</td> |
---|
895 | <td class="left">http</td> |
---|
896 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
---|
897 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.proxy-authenticate.2" title="Proxy-Authenticate">Section 4.2</a> |
---|
898 | </td> |
---|
899 | </tr> |
---|
900 | <tr> |
---|
901 | <td class="left">Proxy-Authorization</td> |
---|
902 | <td class="left">http</td> |
---|
903 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
---|
904 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.proxy-authorization" id="rfc.xref.header.proxy-authorization.2" title="Proxy-Authorization">Section 4.3</a> |
---|
905 | </td> |
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906 | </tr> |
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907 | <tr> |
---|
908 | <td class="left">WWW-Authenticate</td> |
---|
909 | <td class="left">http</td> |
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910 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
---|
911 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.www-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.2" title="WWW-Authenticate">Section 4.4</a> |
---|
912 | </td> |
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913 | </tr> |
---|
914 | </tbody> |
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915 | </table> |
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916 | </div> |
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917 | <p id="rfc.section.5.3.p.2">The change controller is: "IETF (iesg@ietf.org) - Internet Engineering Task Force".</p> |
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918 | <h1 id="rfc.section.6"><a href="#rfc.section.6">6.</a> <a id="security.considerations" href="#security.considerations">Security Considerations</a></h1> |
---|
919 | <p id="rfc.section.6.p.1">This section is meant to inform application developers, information providers, and users of the security limitations in HTTP/1.1 |
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920 | as described by this document. The discussion does not include definitive solutions to the problems revealed, though it does |
---|
921 | make some suggestions for reducing security risks. |
---|
922 | </p> |
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923 | <h2 id="rfc.section.6.1"><a href="#rfc.section.6.1">6.1</a> <a id="auth.credentials.and.idle.clients" href="#auth.credentials.and.idle.clients">Authentication Credentials and Idle Clients</a></h2> |
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924 | <p id="rfc.section.6.1.p.1">Existing HTTP clients and user agents typically retain authentication information indefinitely. HTTP/1.1 does not provide |
---|
925 | a method for a server to direct clients to discard these cached credentials. This is a significant defect that requires further |
---|
926 | extensions to HTTP. Circumstances under which credential caching can interfere with the application's security model include |
---|
927 | but are not limited to: |
---|
928 | </p> |
---|
929 | <ul> |
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930 | <li>Clients which have been idle for an extended period following which the server might wish to cause the client to reprompt |
---|
931 | the user for credentials. |
---|
932 | </li> |
---|
933 | <li>Applications which include a session termination indication (such as a "logout" or "commit" button on a page) after which |
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934 | the server side of the application "knows" that there is no further reason for the client to retain the credentials. |
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935 | </li> |
---|
936 | </ul> |
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937 | <p id="rfc.section.6.1.p.2">This is currently under separate study. There are a number of work-arounds to parts of this problem, and we encourage the |
---|
938 | use of password protection in screen savers, idle time-outs, and other methods which mitigate the security problems inherent |
---|
939 | in this problem. In particular, user agents which cache credentials are encouraged to provide a readily accessible mechanism |
---|
940 | for discarding cached credentials under user control. |
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941 | </p> |
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942 | <h1 id="rfc.section.7"><a href="#rfc.section.7">7.</a> <a id="acks" href="#acks">Acknowledgments</a></h1> |
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943 | <p id="rfc.section.7.p.1">This specification takes over the definition of the HTTP Authentication Framework, previously defined in <cite title="HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication" id="rfc.xref.RFC2617.3">RFC 2617</cite>. We thank John Franks, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, Jeffery L. Hostetler, Scott D. Lawrence, Paul J. Leach, Ari Luotonen, and |
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944 | Lawrence C. Stewart for their work on that specification. See <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-6">Section 6</a> of <a href="#RFC2617" id="rfc.xref.RFC2617.4"><cite title="HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication">[RFC2617]</cite></a> for further acknowledgements. |
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945 | </p> |
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946 | <p id="rfc.section.7.p.2">See <a href="p1-messaging.html#acks" title="Acknowledgments">Section 12</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.11"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a> for the Acknowledgments related to this document revision. |
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947 | </p> |
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948 | <h1 id="rfc.references"><a id="rfc.section.8" href="#rfc.section.8">8.</a> References |
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949 | </h1> |
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950 | <h2 id="rfc.references.1"><a href="#rfc.section.8.1" id="rfc.section.8.1">8.1</a> Normative References |
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951 | </h2> |
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952 | <table> |
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953 | <tr> |
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954 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part1">[Part1]</b></td> |
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955 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@freedesktop.org" title="Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest">HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest (work in progress), August 2011. |
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956 | </td> |
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957 | </tr> |
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958 | <tr> |
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959 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part6">[Part6]</b></td> |
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960 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@freedesktop.org" title="Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:mnot@mnot.net">Nottingham, M., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-latest">HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-latest (work in progress), August 2011. |
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961 | </td> |
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962 | </tr> |
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963 | <tr> |
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964 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC2119">[RFC2119]</b></td> |
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965 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:sob@harvard.edu" title="Harvard University">Bradner, S.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119">Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels</a>”, BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. |
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966 | </td> |
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967 | </tr> |
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968 | <tr> |
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969 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC5234">[RFC5234]</b></td> |
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970 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:dcrocker@bbiw.net" title="Brandenburg InternetWorking">Crocker, D., Ed.</a> and <a href="mailto:paul.overell@thus.net" title="THUS plc.">P. Overell</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234">Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF</a>”, STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008. |
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971 | </td> |
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972 | </tr> |
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973 | </table> |
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974 | <h2 id="rfc.references.2"><a href="#rfc.section.8.2" id="rfc.section.8.2">8.2</a> Informative References |
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975 | </h2> |
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976 | <table> |
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977 | <tr> |
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978 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC2616">[RFC2616]</b></td> |
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979 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@ics.uci.edu" title="University of California, Irvine">Fielding, R.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@w3.org" title="W3C">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:mogul@wrl.dec.com" title="Compaq Computer Corporation">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:frystyk@w3.org" title="MIT Laboratory for Computer Science">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:masinter@parc.xerox.com" title="Xerox Corporation">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, and <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="W3C">T. Berners-Lee</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616">Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</a>”, RFC 2616, June 1999. |
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980 | </td> |
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981 | </tr> |
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982 | <tr> |
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983 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC2617">[RFC2617]</b></td> |
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984 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:john@math.nwu.edu" title="Northwestern University, Department of Mathematics">Franks, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:pbaker@verisign.com" title="Verisign Inc.">Hallam-Baker, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:jeff@AbiSource.com" title="AbiSource, Inc.">Hostetler, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:lawrence@agranat.com" title="Agranat Systems, Inc.">Lawrence, S.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, Luotonen, A., and <a href="mailto:stewart@OpenMarket.com" title="Open Market, Inc.">L. Stewart</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617">HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication</a>”, RFC 2617, June 1999. |
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985 | </td> |
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986 | </tr> |
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987 | <tr> |
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988 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC3864">[RFC3864]</b></td> |
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989 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:GK-IETF@ninebynine.org" title="Nine by Nine">Klyne, G.</a>, <a href="mailto:mnot@pobox.com" title="BEA Systems">Nottingham, M.</a>, and <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="HP Labs">J. Mogul</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3864">Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields</a>”, BCP 90, RFC 3864, September 2004. |
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990 | </td> |
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991 | </tr> |
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992 | <tr> |
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993 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC3986">[RFC3986]</b></td> |
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994 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Day Software">Fielding, R.</a>, and <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">L. Masinter</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986">Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax</a>”, STD 66, RFC 3986, January 2005. |
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995 | </td> |
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996 | </tr> |
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997 | <tr> |
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998 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC4648">[RFC4648]</b></td> |
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999 | <td class="top">Josefsson, S., “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648">The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings</a>”, RFC 4648, October 2006. |
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1000 | </td> |
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1001 | </tr> |
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1002 | <tr> |
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1003 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC5226">[RFC5226]</b></td> |
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1004 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:narten@us.ibm.com" title="IBM">Narten, T.</a> and <a href="mailto:Harald@Alvestrand.no" title="Google">H. Alvestrand</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5226">Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs</a>”, BCP 26, RFC 5226, May 2008. |
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1005 | </td> |
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1006 | </tr> |
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1007 | </table> |
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1008 | <div class="avoidbreak"> |
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1009 | <h1 id="rfc.authors"><a href="#rfc.authors">Authors' Addresses</a></h1> |
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1010 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Roy T. Fielding</span> |
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1011 | (editor) |
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1012 | <span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Fielding</span><span class="given-name">Roy T.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Adobe Systems Incorporated</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">345 Park Ave</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">San Jose</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">95110</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com"><span class="email">fielding@gbiv.com</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://roy.gbiv.com/" class="url">http://roy.gbiv.com/</a></span></address> |
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1013 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Jim Gettys</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Gettys</span><span class="given-name">Jim</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">21 Oak Knoll Road</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Carlisle</span>, <span class="region">MA</span> <span class="postal-code">01741</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:jg@freedesktop.org"><span class="email">jg@freedesktop.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://gettys.wordpress.com/" class="url">http://gettys.wordpress.com/</a></span></address> |
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1014 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Jeffrey C. Mogul</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Mogul</span><span class="given-name">Jeffrey C.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Hewlett-Packard Company</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">HP Labs, Large Scale Systems Group</span><span class="street-address vcardline">1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1177</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Palo Alto</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">94304</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org"><span class="email">JeffMogul@acm.org</span></a></span></address> |
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1015 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Henrik Frystyk Nielsen</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Frystyk</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Microsoft Corporation</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">1 Microsoft Way</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Redmond</span>, <span class="region">WA</span> <span class="postal-code">98052</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com"><span class="email">henrikn@microsoft.com</span></a></span></address> |
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1016 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Larry Masinter</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Masinter</span><span class="given-name">Larry</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Adobe Systems Incorporated</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">345 Park Ave</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">San Jose</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">95110</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org"><span class="email">LMM@acm.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://larry.masinter.net/" class="url">http://larry.masinter.net/</a></span></address> |
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1017 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Paul J. Leach</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Leach</span><span class="given-name">Paul J.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Microsoft Corporation</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">1 Microsoft Way</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Redmond</span>, <span class="region">WA</span> <span class="postal-code">98052</span></span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com"><span class="email">paulle@microsoft.com</span></a></span></address> |
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1018 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Tim Berners-Lee</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Berners-Lee</span><span class="given-name">Tim</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">World Wide Web Consortium</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</span><span class="street-address vcardline">The Stata Center, Building 32</span><span class="street-address vcardline">32 Vassar Street</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Cambridge</span>, <span class="region">MA</span> <span class="postal-code">02139</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org"><span class="email">timbl@w3.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/" class="url">http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/</a></span></address> |
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1019 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Yves Lafon</span> |
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1020 | (editor) |
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1021 | <span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Lafon</span><span class="given-name">Yves</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">World Wide Web Consortium</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">W3C / ERCIM</span><span class="street-address vcardline">2004, rte des Lucioles</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Sophia-Antipolis</span>, <span class="region">AM</span> <span class="postal-code">06902</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">France</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org"><span class="email">ylafon@w3.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://www.raubacapeu.net/people/yves/" class="url">http://www.raubacapeu.net/people/yves/</a></span></address> |
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1022 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Julian F. Reschke</span> |
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1023 | (editor) |
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1024 | <span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Reschke</span><span class="given-name">Julian F.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">greenbytes GmbH</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">Hafenweg 16</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Muenster</span>, <span class="region">NW</span> <span class="postal-code">48155</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">Germany</span></span><span class="vcardline tel">Phone: <a href="tel:+492512807760"><span class="value">+49 251 2807760</span></a></span><span class="vcardline tel"><span class="type">Fax</span>: <a href="fax:+492512807761"><span class="value">+49 251 2807761</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de"><span class="email">julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/" class="url">http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/</a></span></address> |
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1025 | </div> |
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1026 | <h1 id="rfc.section.A" class="np"><a href="#rfc.section.A">A.</a> <a id="changes.from.rfc.2616" href="#changes.from.rfc.2616">Changes from RFCs 2616 and 2617</a></h1> |
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1027 | <p id="rfc.section.A.p.1">The "realm" parameter isn't required anymore in general; consequently, the ABNF allows challenges without any auth parameters. |
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1028 | (<a href="#access.authentication.framework" title="Access Authentication Framework">Section 2</a>) |
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1029 | </p> |
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1030 | <p id="rfc.section.A.p.2">The "b64token" alternative to auth-param lists has been added for consistency with legacy authentication schemes such as "Basic". |
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1031 | (<a href="#access.authentication.framework" title="Access Authentication Framework">Section 2</a>) |
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1032 | </p> |
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1033 | <p id="rfc.section.A.p.3">Change ABNF productions for header fields to only define the field value. (<a href="#header.field.definitions" title="Header Field Definitions">Section 4</a>) |
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1034 | </p> |
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1035 | <h1 id="rfc.section.B"><a href="#rfc.section.B">B.</a> <a id="collected.abnf" href="#collected.abnf">Collected ABNF</a></h1> |
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1036 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.10"></div> <pre class="inline"><a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a> = credentials |
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1037 | |
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1038 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">BWS</a> = <BWS, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2> |
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1039 | |
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1040 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> = <OWS, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2> |
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1041 | |
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1042 | <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" class="smpl">Proxy-Authenticate</a> = *( "," OWS ) challenge *( OWS "," [ OWS |
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1043 | challenge ] ) |
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1044 | <a href="#header.proxy-authorization" class="smpl">Proxy-Authorization</a> = credentials |
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1045 | |
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1046 | <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a> = *( "," OWS ) challenge *( OWS "," [ OWS challenge |
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1047 | ] ) |
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1048 | |
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1049 | <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">auth-param</a> = token BWS "=" BWS ( token / quoted-string ) |
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1050 | <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">auth-scheme</a> = token |
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1051 | |
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1052 | <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">b64token</a> = 1*( ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~" / "+" / "/" ) |
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1053 | *"=" |
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1054 | |
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1055 | <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">challenge</a> = auth-scheme [ 1*SP ( b64token / [ ( "," / auth-param ) *( |
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1056 | OWS "," [ OWS auth-param ] ) ] ) ] |
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1057 | <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">credentials</a> = auth-scheme [ 1*SP ( b64token / [ ( "," / auth-param ) |
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1058 | *( OWS "," [ OWS auth-param ] ) ] ) ] |
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1059 | |
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1060 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">quoted-string</a> = <quoted-string, defined in [Part1], Section 3.2.3> |
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1061 | |
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1062 | realm = "realm" BWS "=" BWS realm-value |
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1063 | realm-value = quoted-string |
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1064 | |
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1065 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">token</a> = <token, defined in [Part1], Section 3.2.3> |
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1066 | </pre> <div id="rfc.figure.u.11"></div> |
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1067 | <p>ABNF diagnostics:</p><pre class="inline">; Authorization defined but not used |
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1068 | ; Proxy-Authenticate defined but not used |
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1069 | ; Proxy-Authorization defined but not used |
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1070 | ; WWW-Authenticate defined but not used |
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1071 | ; realm defined but not used |
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1072 | </pre><h1 id="rfc.section.C"><a href="#rfc.section.C">C.</a> <a id="change.log" href="#change.log">Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)</a></h1> |
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1073 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.1"><a href="#rfc.section.C.1">C.1</a> Since RFC 2616 |
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1074 | </h2> |
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1075 | <p id="rfc.section.C.1.p.1">Extracted relevant partitions from <a href="#RFC2616" id="rfc.xref.RFC2616.2"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1">[RFC2616]</cite></a>. |
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1076 | </p> |
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1077 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.2"><a href="#rfc.section.C.2">C.2</a> Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-00 |
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1078 | </h2> |
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1079 | <p id="rfc.section.C.2.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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1080 | <ul> |
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1081 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/35">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/35</a>>: "Normative and Informative references" |
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1082 | </li> |
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1083 | </ul> |
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1084 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.3"><a href="#rfc.section.C.3">C.3</a> Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-01 |
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1085 | </h2> |
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1086 | <p id="rfc.section.C.3.p.1">Ongoing work on ABNF conversion (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36</a>>): |
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1087 | </p> |
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1088 | <ul> |
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1089 | <li>Explicitly import BNF rules for "challenge" and "credentials" from RFC2617.</li> |
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1090 | <li>Add explicit references to BNF syntax and rules imported from other parts of the specification.</li> |
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1091 | </ul> |
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1092 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.4"><a href="#rfc.section.C.4">C.4</a> <a id="changes.since.02" href="#changes.since.02">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-02</a></h2> |
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1093 | <p id="rfc.section.C.4.p.1">Ongoing work on IANA Message Header Field Registration (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/40">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/40</a>>): |
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1094 | </p> |
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1095 | <ul> |
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1096 | <li>Reference RFC 3984, and update header field registrations for header fields defined in this document.</li> |
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1097 | </ul> |
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1098 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.5"><a href="#rfc.section.C.5">C.5</a> <a id="changes.since.03" href="#changes.since.03">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-03</a></h2> |
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1099 | <p id="rfc.section.C.5.p.1">None.</p> |
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1100 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.6"><a href="#rfc.section.C.6">C.6</a> <a id="changes.since.04" href="#changes.since.04">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-04</a></h2> |
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1101 | <p id="rfc.section.C.6.p.1">Ongoing work on ABNF conversion (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36</a>>): |
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1102 | </p> |
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1103 | <ul> |
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1104 | <li>Use "/" instead of "|" for alternatives.</li> |
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1105 | <li>Introduce new ABNF rules for "bad" whitespace ("BWS"), optional whitespace ("OWS") and required whitespace ("RWS").</li> |
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1106 | <li>Rewrite ABNFs to spell out whitespace rules, factor out header field value format definitions.</li> |
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1107 | </ul> |
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1108 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.7"><a href="#rfc.section.C.7">C.7</a> <a id="changes.since.05" href="#changes.since.05">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-05</a></h2> |
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1109 | <p id="rfc.section.C.7.p.1">Final work on ABNF conversion (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36</a>>): |
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1110 | </p> |
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1111 | <ul> |
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1112 | <li>Add appendix containing collected and expanded ABNF, reorganize ABNF introduction.</li> |
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1113 | </ul> |
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1114 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.8"><a href="#rfc.section.C.8">C.8</a> <a id="changes.since.06" href="#changes.since.06">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-06</a></h2> |
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1115 | <p id="rfc.section.C.8.p.1">None.</p> |
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1116 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.9"><a href="#rfc.section.C.9">C.9</a> <a id="changes.since.07" href="#changes.since.07">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-07</a></h2> |
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1117 | <p id="rfc.section.C.9.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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1118 | <ul> |
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1119 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/198">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/198</a>>: "move IANA registrations for optional status codes" |
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1120 | </li> |
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1121 | </ul> |
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1122 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.10"><a href="#rfc.section.C.10">C.10</a> <a id="changes.since.08" href="#changes.since.08">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-08</a></h2> |
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1123 | <p id="rfc.section.C.10.p.1">No significant changes.</p> |
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1124 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.11"><a href="#rfc.section.C.11">C.11</a> <a id="changes.since.09" href="#changes.since.09">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-09</a></h2> |
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1125 | <p id="rfc.section.C.11.p.1">Partly resolved issues: </p> |
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1126 | <ul> |
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1127 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/196">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/196</a>>: "Term for the requested resource's URI" |
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1128 | </li> |
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1129 | </ul> |
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1130 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.12"><a href="#rfc.section.C.12">C.12</a> <a id="changes.since.10" href="#changes.since.10">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-10</a></h2> |
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1131 | <p id="rfc.section.C.12.p.1">None.</p> |
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1132 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.13"><a href="#rfc.section.C.13">C.13</a> <a id="changes.since.11" href="#changes.since.11">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-11</a></h2> |
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1133 | <p id="rfc.section.C.13.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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1134 | <ul> |
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1135 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/130">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/130</a>>: "introduction to part 7 is work-in-progress" |
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1136 | </li> |
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1137 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/195">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/195</a>>: "auth-param syntax" |
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1138 | </li> |
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1139 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/224">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/224</a>>: "Header Classification" |
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1140 | </li> |
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1141 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/237">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/237</a>>: "absorbing the auth framework from 2617" |
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1142 | </li> |
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1143 | </ul> |
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1144 | <p id="rfc.section.C.13.p.2">Partly resolved issues: </p> |
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1145 | <ul> |
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1146 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/141">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/141</a>>: "should we have an auth scheme registry" |
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1147 | </li> |
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1148 | </ul> |
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1149 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.14"><a href="#rfc.section.C.14">C.14</a> <a id="changes.since.12" href="#changes.since.12">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-12</a></h2> |
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1150 | <p id="rfc.section.C.14.p.1">None.</p> |
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1151 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.15"><a href="#rfc.section.C.15">C.15</a> <a id="changes.since.13" href="#changes.since.13">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-13</a></h2> |
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1152 | <p id="rfc.section.C.15.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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1153 | <ul> |
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1154 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/276">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/276</a>>: "untangle ABNFs for header fields" |
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1155 | </li> |
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1156 | </ul> |
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1157 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.16"><a href="#rfc.section.C.16">C.16</a> <a id="changes.since.14" href="#changes.since.14">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-14</a></h2> |
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1158 | <p id="rfc.section.C.16.p.1">None.</p> |
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1159 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.17"><a href="#rfc.section.C.17">C.17</a> <a id="changes.since.15" href="#changes.since.15">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-15</a></h2> |
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1160 | <p id="rfc.section.C.17.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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1161 | <ul> |
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1162 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/78">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/78</a>>: "Relationship between 401, Authorization and WWW-Authenticate" |
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1163 | </li> |
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1164 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/177">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/177</a>>: "Realm required on challenges" |
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1165 | </li> |
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1166 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/195">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/195</a>>: "auth-param syntax" |
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1167 | </li> |
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1168 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/257">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/257</a>>: "Considerations for new authentications schemes" |
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1169 | </li> |
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1170 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/287">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/287</a>>: "LWS in auth-param ABNF" |
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1171 | </li> |
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1172 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/309">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/309</a>>: "credentials ABNF missing SP (still using implied LWS?)" |
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1173 | </li> |
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1174 | </ul> |
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1175 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.18"><a href="#rfc.section.C.18">C.18</a> <a id="changes.since.16" href="#changes.since.16">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-16</a></h2> |
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1176 | <p id="rfc.section.C.18.p.1">None yet.</p> |
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1177 | <h1 id="rfc.index"><a href="#rfc.index">Index</a></h1> |
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1178 | <p class="noprint"><a href="#rfc.index.4">4</a> <a href="#rfc.index.A">A</a> <a href="#rfc.index.B">B</a> <a href="#rfc.index.C">C</a> <a href="#rfc.index.G">G</a> <a href="#rfc.index.H">H</a> <a href="#rfc.index.P">P</a> <a href="#rfc.index.R">R</a> <a href="#rfc.index.S">S</a> <a href="#rfc.index.W">W</a> |
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1179 | </p> |
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1180 | <div class="print2col"> |
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1181 | <ul class="ind"> |
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1182 | <li><a id="rfc.index.4" href="#rfc.index.4"><b>4</b></a><ul> |
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1183 | <li>401 Unauthorized (status code) <a href="#rfc.iref.15"><b>3.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.401.1">5.2</a></li> |
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1184 | <li>407 Proxy Authentication Required (status code) <a href="#rfc.iref.16"><b>3.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.407.1">5.2</a></li> |
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1185 | </ul> |
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1186 | </li> |
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1187 | <li><a id="rfc.index.A" href="#rfc.index.A"><b>A</b></a><ul> |
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1188 | <li><tt>auth-param</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.a.2"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1189 | <li><tt>auth-scheme</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.a.1"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1190 | <li>Authorization header field <a href="#rfc.xref.header.authorization.1">2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.authorization.2">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.a.3"><b>4.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.authorization.3">5.3</a></li> |
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1191 | </ul> |
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1192 | </li> |
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1193 | <li><a id="rfc.index.B" href="#rfc.index.B"><b>B</b></a><ul> |
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1194 | <li><tt>b64token</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.b.1"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1195 | </ul> |
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1196 | </li> |
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1197 | <li><a id="rfc.index.C" href="#rfc.index.C"><b>C</b></a><ul> |
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1198 | <li><tt>challenge</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.c.1"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1199 | <li><tt>credentials</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.c.2"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1200 | </ul> |
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1201 | </li> |
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1202 | <li><a id="rfc.index.G" href="#rfc.index.G"><b>G</b></a><ul> |
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1203 | <li><tt>Grammar</tt> |
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1204 | <ul> |
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1205 | <li><tt>auth-param</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.2"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1206 | <li><tt>auth-scheme</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.1"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1207 | <li><tt>Authorization</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.7"><b>4.1</b></a></li> |
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1208 | <li><tt>b64token</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.3"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1209 | <li><tt>challenge</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.4"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1210 | <li><tt>credentials</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.5"><b>2.1</b></a></li> |
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1211 | <li><tt>Proxy-Authenticate</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.8"><b>4.2</b></a></li> |
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1212 | <li><tt>Proxy-Authorization</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.9"><b>4.3</b></a></li> |
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1213 | <li><tt>realm</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.6"><b>2.2</b></a></li> |
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1214 | <li><tt>WWW-Authenticate</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.10"><b>4.4</b></a></li> |
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1215 | </ul> |
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1216 | </li> |
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1217 | </ul> |
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1218 | </li> |
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1219 | <li><a id="rfc.index.H" href="#rfc.index.H"><b>H</b></a><ul> |
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1220 | <li>Header Fields |
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1221 | <ul> |
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1222 | <li>Authorization <a href="#rfc.xref.header.authorization.1">2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.authorization.2">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.1"><b>4.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.authorization.3">5.3</a></li> |
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1223 | <li>Proxy-Authenticate <a href="#rfc.xref.header.proxy-authenticate.1">3.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.2"><b>4.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.proxy-authenticate.2">5.3</a></li> |
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1224 | <li>Proxy-Authorization <a href="#rfc.xref.header.proxy-authorization.1">3.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.3"><b>4.3</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.proxy-authorization.2">5.3</a></li> |
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1225 | <li>WWW-Authenticate <a href="#rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.1">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.4"><b>4.4</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.2">5.3</a></li> |
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1226 | </ul> |
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1227 | </li> |
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1228 | </ul> |
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1229 | </li> |
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1230 | <li><a id="rfc.index.P" href="#rfc.index.P"><b>P</b></a><ul> |
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1231 | <li><em>Part1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">2.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.9">4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.10">4.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.11">7</a>, <a href="#Part1"><b>8.1</b></a><ul> |
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1232 | <li><em>Section 1.2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1.2</a></li> |
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1233 | <li><em>Section 1.2.2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">1.2.1</a></li> |
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1234 | <li><em>Section 2.2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">2.3.1</a></li> |
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1235 | <li><em>Section 3.2.3</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">1.2.1</a></li> |
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1236 | <li><em>Section 4.3</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.9">4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.10">4.4</a></li> |
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1237 | <li><em>Section 12</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.11">7</a></li> |
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1238 | </ul> |
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1239 | </li> |
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1240 | <li><em>Part6</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.1">4.1</a>, <a href="#Part6"><b>8.1</b></a><ul> |
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1241 | <li><em>Section 1.2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.1">4.1</a></li> |
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1242 | </ul> |
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1243 | </li> |
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1244 | <li>Protection Space <a href="#rfc.iref.p.1">2.2</a></li> |
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1245 | <li>Proxy-Authenticate header field <a href="#rfc.xref.header.proxy-authenticate.1">3.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.p.2"><b>4.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.proxy-authenticate.2">5.3</a></li> |
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1246 | <li>Proxy-Authorization header field <a href="#rfc.xref.header.proxy-authorization.1">3.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.p.3"><b>4.3</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.proxy-authorization.2">5.3</a></li> |
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1247 | </ul> |
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1248 | </li> |
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1249 | <li><a id="rfc.index.R" href="#rfc.index.R"><b>R</b></a><ul> |
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1250 | <li>Realm <a href="#rfc.iref.r.1">2.2</a></li> |
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1251 | <li><tt>realm</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.r.2"><b>2.2</b></a></li> |
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1252 | <li><tt>realm-value</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.r.3"><b>2.2</b></a></li> |
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1253 | <li><em>RFC2119</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2119.1">1.1</a>, <a href="#RFC2119"><b>8.1</b></a></li> |
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1254 | <li><em>RFC2616</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2616.1">1</a>, <a href="#RFC2616"><b>8.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2616.2">C.1</a></li> |
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1255 | <li><em>RFC2617</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2617.1">1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2617.2">1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2617.3">7</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2617.4">7</a>, <a href="#RFC2617"><b>8.2</b></a><ul> |
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1256 | <li><em>Section 6</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2617.4">7</a></li> |
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1257 | </ul> |
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1258 | </li> |
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1259 | <li><em>RFC3864</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC3864.1">5.3</a>, <a href="#RFC3864"><b>8.2</b></a></li> |
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1260 | <li><em>RFC3986</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC3986.1">2.1</a>, <a href="#RFC3986"><b>8.2</b></a></li> |
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1261 | <li><em>RFC4648</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC4648.1">2.1</a>, <a href="#RFC4648"><b>8.2</b></a></li> |
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1262 | <li><em>RFC5226</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5226.1">2.3</a>, <a href="#RFC5226"><b>8.2</b></a><ul> |
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1263 | <li><em>Section 4.1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5226.1">2.3</a></li> |
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1264 | </ul> |
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1265 | </li> |
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1266 | <li><em>RFC5234</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5234.1">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5234.2">1.2</a>, <a href="#RFC5234"><b>8.1</b></a><ul> |
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1267 | <li><em>Appendix B.1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5234.2">1.2</a></li> |
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1268 | </ul> |
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1269 | </li> |
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1270 | </ul> |
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1271 | </li> |
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1272 | <li><a id="rfc.index.S" href="#rfc.index.S"><b>S</b></a><ul> |
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1273 | <li>Status Codes |
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1274 | <ul> |
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1275 | <li>401 Unauthorized <a href="#rfc.iref.s.1"><b>3.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.401.1">5.2</a></li> |
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1276 | <li>407 Proxy Authentication Required <a href="#rfc.iref.s.2"><b>3.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.407.1">5.2</a></li> |
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1277 | </ul> |
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1278 | </li> |
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1279 | </ul> |
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1280 | </li> |
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1281 | <li><a id="rfc.index.W" href="#rfc.index.W"><b>W</b></a><ul> |
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1282 | <li>WWW-Authenticate header field <a href="#rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.1">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.w.1"><b>4.4</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.2">5.3</a></li> |
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1283 | </ul> |
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1284 | </li> |
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1285 | </ul> |
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1286 | </div> |
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1287 | </body> |
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1288 | </html> |
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