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07/05/13 14:04:14 (8 years ago)
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Move sections about new auth schemes registration, other considerations) into IANA section (see #464).

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    489489      <meta name="dct.creator" content="Reschke, J. F.">
    490490      <meta name="dct.identifier" content="urn:ietf:id:draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-latest">
    491       <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2013-05-01">
     491      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2013-05-07">
    492492      <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2616">
    493493      <meta name="dct.abstract" content="The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This document defines the HTTP Authentication framework.">
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    518518               <td class="left">Intended status: Standards Track</td>
    519                <td class="right">May 1, 2013</td>
     519               <td class="right">May 7, 2013</td>
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    522                <td class="left">Expires: November 2, 2013</td>
     522               <td class="left">Expires: November 8, 2013</td>
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    546546         in progress”.
    547547      </p>
    548       <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on November 2, 2013.</p>
     548      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on November 8, 2013.</p>
    549549      <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1>
    550550      <p>Copyright © 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p>
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    572572               <li><a href="#rfc.section.2.1">2.1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#challenge.and.response">Challenge and Response</a></li>
    573573               <li><a href="#rfc.section.2.2">2.2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#protection.space">Protection Space (Realm)</a></li>
    574                <li><a href="#rfc.section.2.3">2.3</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#authentication.scheme.registry">Authentication Scheme Registry</a><ul>
    575                      <li><a href="#rfc.section.2.3.1">2.3.1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes">Considerations for New Authentication Schemes</a></li>
    576                   </ul>
    577                </li>
    578574            </ul>
    579575         </li>
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    591587         </li>
    592588         <li><a href="#rfc.section.5">5.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#IANA.considerations">IANA Considerations</a><ul>
    593                <li><a href="#rfc.section.5.1">5.1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#authentication.scheme.registration">Authentication Scheme Registry</a></li>
     589               <li><a href="#rfc.section.5.1">5.1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#authentication.scheme.registry">Authentication Scheme Registry</a><ul>
     590                     <li><a href="#rfc.section.5.1.1">5.1.1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#authentication.scheme.registry.procedure">Procedure</a></li>
     591                     <li><a href="#rfc.section.5.1.2">5.1.2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes">Considerations for New Authentication Schemes</a></li>
     592                  </ul>
     593               </li>
    594594               <li><a href="#rfc.section.5.2">5.2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#status.code.registration">Status Code Registration</a></li>
    595595               <li><a href="#rfc.section.5.3">5.3</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#header.field.registration">Header Field Registration</a></li>
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    711711         with existing clients that have been accepting both notations for a long time.
    712712      </p>
    713       <h2 id="rfc.section.2.3"><a href="#rfc.section.2.3">2.3</a>&nbsp;<a id="authentication.scheme.registry" href="#authentication.scheme.registry">Authentication Scheme Registry</a></h2>
    714       <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>
    715       <p id="rfc.section.2.3.p.2">Registrations <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include the following fields:
     713      <h1 id="rfc.section.3"><a href="#rfc.section.3">3.</a>&nbsp;<a id="status.code.definitions" href="#status.code.definitions">Status Code Definitions</a></h1>
     714      <div id="rfc.iref.8"></div>
     715      <h2 id="rfc.section.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.3.1">3.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="status.401" href="#status.401">401 Unauthorized</a></h2>
     716      <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.1">The <dfn>401 (Unauthorized)</dfn> status code indicates that the request has not been applied because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the target
     717         resource. The origin server <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> send a <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a> header field (<a href="#header.www-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.1" title="WWW-Authenticate">Section&nbsp;4.4</a>) containing at least one challenge applicable to the target resource. If the request included authentication credentials,
     718         then the 401 response indicates that authorization has been refused for those credentials. The user agent <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> repeat the request with a new or replaced <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a> header field (<a href="#header.authorization" id="rfc.xref.header.authorization.2" title="Authorization">Section&nbsp;4.1</a>). If the 401 response contains the same challenge as the prior response, and the user agent has already attempted authentication
     719         at least once, then the user agent <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> present the enclosed representation to the user, since it usually contains relevant diagnostic information.
     720      </p>
     721      <div id="rfc.iref.8"></div>
     722      <h2 id="rfc.section.3.2"><a href="#rfc.section.3.2">3.2</a>&nbsp;<a id="status.407" href="#status.407">407 Proxy Authentication Required</a></h2>
     723      <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.1">The <dfn>407 (Proxy Authentication Required)</dfn> status code is similar to <a href="#status.401" class="smpl">401 (Unauthorized)</a>, but indicates that the client needs to authenticate itself in order to use a proxy. The proxy <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> send a <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" class="smpl">Proxy-Authenticate</a> header field (<a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.proxy-authenticate.1" title="Proxy-Authenticate">Section&nbsp;4.2</a>) containing a challenge applicable to that proxy for the target resource. The client <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> repeat the request with a new or replaced <a href="#header.proxy-authorization" class="smpl">Proxy-Authorization</a> header field (<a href="#header.proxy-authorization" id="rfc.xref.header.proxy-authorization.1" title="Proxy-Authorization">Section&nbsp;4.3</a>).
     724      </p>
     725      <h1 id="rfc.section.4"><a href="#rfc.section.4">4.</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.field.definitions" href="#header.field.definitions">Header Field Definitions</a></h1>
     726      <p id="rfc.section.4.p.1">This section defines the syntax and semantics of HTTP/1.1 header fields related to authentication.</p>
     727      <div id="rfc.iref.a.1"></div>
     728      <h2 id="rfc.section.4.1"><a href="#rfc.section.4.1">4.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.authorization" href="#header.authorization">Authorization</a></h2>
     729      <p id="rfc.section.4.1.p.1">The "Authorization" header field allows a user agent to authenticate itself with an origin server — usually, but not necessarily,
     730         after receiving a <a href="#status.401" class="smpl">401
     731            (Unauthorized)</a> response. Its value consists of credentials containing information of the user agent for the realm of the resource being requested.
     732      </p>
     733      <div id="rfc.figure.u.4"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.6"></span>  <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a> = <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">credentials</a>
     734</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,
     735         such as credentials that vary according to a challenge value or using synchronized clocks).
     736      </p>
     737      <p id="rfc.section.4.1.p.4">See <a href="p6-cache.html#caching.authenticated.responses" title="Storing Responses to Authenticated Requests">Section 3.2</a> of <a href="#Part6" id="rfc.xref.Part6.1"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching">[Part6]</cite></a> for details of and requirements pertaining to handling of the Authorization field by HTTP caches.
     738      </p>
     739      <div id="rfc.iref.p.2"></div>
     740      <h2 id="rfc.section.4.2"><a href="#rfc.section.4.2">4.2</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.proxy-authenticate" href="#header.proxy-authenticate">Proxy-Authenticate</a></h2>
     741      <p id="rfc.section.4.2.p.1">The "Proxy-Authenticate" header field consists of at least one challenge that indicates the authentication scheme(s) and parameters
     742         applicable to the proxy for this effective request URI (<a href="p1-messaging.html#effective.request.uri" title="Effective Request URI">Section 5.5</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.4"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>). It <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included as part of a <a href="#status.407" class="smpl">407 (Proxy Authentication Required)</a> response.
     743      </p>
     744      <div id="rfc.figure.u.5"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.7"></span>  <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" class="smpl">Proxy-Authenticate</a> = 1#<a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">challenge</a>
     745</pre><p id="rfc.section.4.2.p.3">Unlike <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a>, the Proxy-Authenticate header field applies only to the current connection, and intermediaries <em class="bcp14">SHOULD NOT</em> forward it to downstream clients. However, an intermediate proxy might need to obtain its own credentials by requesting them
     746         from the downstream client, which in some circumstances will appear as if the proxy is forwarding the Proxy-Authenticate header
     747         field.
     748      </p>
     749      <p id="rfc.section.4.2.p.4">Note that the parsing considerations for <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a> apply to this header field as well; see <a href="#header.www-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.2" title="WWW-Authenticate">Section&nbsp;4.4</a> for details.
     750      </p>
     751      <div id="rfc.iref.p.3"></div>
     752      <h2 id="rfc.section.4.3"><a href="#rfc.section.4.3">4.3</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.proxy-authorization" href="#header.proxy-authorization">Proxy-Authorization</a></h2>
     753      <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 that requires authentication.
     754         Its value consists of credentials containing the authentication information of the client for the proxy and/or realm of the
     755         resource being requested.
     756      </p>
     757      <div id="rfc.figure.u.6"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.8"></span>  <a href="#header.proxy-authorization" class="smpl">Proxy-Authorization</a> = <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">credentials</a>
     758</pre><p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.3">Unlike <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a>, the Proxy-Authorization header field applies only to the next outbound proxy that demanded authentication using the <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" class="smpl">Proxy-Authenticate</a> field. When multiple proxies are used in a chain, the Proxy-Authorization header field is consumed by the first outbound proxy
     759         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
     760         authenticate a given request.
     761      </p>
     762      <div id="rfc.iref.w.1"></div>
     763      <h2 id="rfc.section.4.4"><a href="#rfc.section.4.4">4.4</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.www-authenticate" href="#header.www-authenticate">WWW-Authenticate</a></h2>
     764      <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
     765         applicable to the effective request URI (<a href="p1-messaging.html#effective.request.uri" title="Effective Request URI">Section 5.5</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.5"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
     766      </p>
     767      <p id="rfc.section.4.4.p.2">It <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included in <a href="#status.401" class="smpl">401 (Unauthorized)</a> 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
     768         response.
     769      </p>
     770      <div id="rfc.figure.u.7"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.9"></span>  <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a> = 1#<a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">challenge</a>
     771</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
     772         challenge, or if more than one WWW-Authenticate header field is provided, the contents of a challenge itself can contain a
     773         comma-separated list of authentication parameters.
     774      </p>
     775      <div id="rfc.figure.u.8"></div>
     776      <p>For instance:</p><pre class="text">  WWW-Authenticate: Newauth realm="apps", type=1,
     777                    title="Login to \"apps\"", Basic realm="simple"
     778</pre><p>This header field contains two challenges; one for the "Newauth" scheme with a realm value of "apps", and two additional parameters
     779         "type" and "title", and another one for the "Basic" scheme with a realm value of "simple".
     780      </p>
     781      <div class="note" id="rfc.section.4.4.p.6">
     782         <p> <b>Note:</b> The challenge grammar production uses the list syntax as well. Therefore, a sequence of comma, whitespace, and comma can be
     783            considered both as applying to the preceding challenge, or to be an empty entry in the list of challenges. In practice, this
     784            ambiguity does not affect the semantics of the header field value and thus is harmless.
     785         </p>
     786      </div>
     787      <h1 id="rfc.section.5"><a href="#rfc.section.5">5.</a>&nbsp;<a id="IANA.considerations" href="#IANA.considerations">IANA Considerations</a></h1>
     788      <h2 id="rfc.section.5.1"><a href="#rfc.section.5.1">5.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="authentication.scheme.registry" href="#authentication.scheme.registry">Authentication Scheme Registry</a></h2>
     789      <p id="rfc.section.5.1.p.1">The HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry defines the name space for the authentication schemes in challenges and credentials.
     790         It is maintained at &lt;<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes</a>&gt;.
     791      </p>
     792      <h3 id="rfc.section.5.1.1"><a href="#rfc.section.5.1.1">5.1.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="authentication.scheme.registry.procedure" href="#authentication.scheme.registry.procedure">Procedure</a></h3>
     793      <p id="rfc.section.5.1.1.p.1">Registrations <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include the following fields:
    716794      </p>
    717795      <ul>
    … …  
    720798         <li>Notes (optional)</li>
    721799      </ul>
    722       <p id="rfc.section.2.3.p.3">Values to be added to this name space require IETF Review (see <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>).
    723       </p>
    724       <p id="rfc.section.2.3.p.4">The registry itself is maintained at &lt;<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes</a>&gt;.
    725       </p>
    726       <h3 id="rfc.section.2.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.2.3.1">2.3.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes" href="#considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes">Considerations for New Authentication Schemes</a></h3>
    727       <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
     800      <p id="rfc.section.5.1.1.p.2">Values to be added to this name space require IETF Review (see <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>).
     801      </p>
     802      <h3 id="rfc.section.5.1.2"><a href="#rfc.section.5.1.2">5.1.2</a>&nbsp;<a id="considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes" href="#considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes">Considerations for New Authentication Schemes</a></h3>
     803      <p id="rfc.section.5.1.2.p.1">There are certain aspects of the HTTP Authentication Framework that put constraints on how new authentication schemes can
    728804         work:
    729805      </p>
    730       <p id="rfc.section.2.3.1.p.2"> </p>
     806      <p id="rfc.section.5.1.2.p.2"> </p>
    731807      <ul>
    732808         <li>
    733809            <p>HTTP authentication is presumed to be stateless: all of the information necessary to authenticate a request <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be provided in the request, rather than be dependent on the server remembering prior requests. Authentication based on, or
    734810               bound to, the underlying connection is outside the scope of this specification and inherently flawed unless steps are taken
    735                to ensure that the connection cannot be used by any party other than the authenticated user (see <a href="p1-messaging.html#intermediaries" title="Intermediaries">Section 2.3</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.4"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
     811               to ensure that the connection cannot be used by any party other than the authenticated user (see <a href="p1-messaging.html#intermediaries" title="Intermediaries">Section 2.3</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.6"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
    736812            </p>
    737813         </li>
    … …  
    769845         <li>
    770846            <p>The credentials carried in an <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a> header field are specific to the User Agent, and therefore have the same effect on HTTP caches as the "private" Cache-Control
    771                response directive (<a href="p6-cache.html#cache-response-directive.private" title="private">Section 7.2.2.2</a> of <a href="#Part6" id="rfc.xref.Part6.1"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching">[Part6]</cite></a>), within the scope of the request they appear in.
     847               response directive (<a href="p6-cache.html#cache-response-directive.private" title="private">Section 7.2.2.6</a> of <a href="#Part6" id="rfc.xref.Part6.2"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching">[Part6]</cite></a>), within the scope of the request they appear in.
    772848            </p>
    773849            <p>Therefore, new authentication schemes that choose not to carry credentials in the <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a> header field (e.g., using a newly defined header field) will need to explicitly disallow caching, by mandating the use of
    774                either Cache-Control request directives (e.g., "no-store", <a href="p6-cache.html#cache-request-directive.no-store" title="no-store">Section 7.2.1.2</a> of <a href="#Part6" id="rfc.xref.Part6.2"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching">[Part6]</cite></a>) or response directives (e.g., "private").
     850               either Cache-Control request directives (e.g., "no-store", <a href="p6-cache.html#cache-request-directive.no-store" title="no-store">Section 7.2.1.5</a> of <a href="#Part6" id="rfc.xref.Part6.3"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching">[Part6]</cite></a>) or response directives (e.g., "private").
    775851            </p>
    776852         </li>
    777853      </ul>
    778       <h1 id="rfc.section.3"><a href="#rfc.section.3">3.</a>&nbsp;<a id="status.code.definitions" href="#status.code.definitions">Status Code Definitions</a></h1>
    779       <div id="rfc.iref.8"></div>
    780       <h2 id="rfc.section.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.3.1">3.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="status.401" href="#status.401">401 Unauthorized</a></h2>
    781       <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.1">The <dfn>401 (Unauthorized)</dfn> status code indicates that the request has not been applied because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the target
    782          resource. The origin server <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> send a <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a> header field (<a href="#header.www-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.1" title="WWW-Authenticate">Section&nbsp;4.4</a>) containing at least one challenge applicable to the target resource. If the request included authentication credentials,
    783          then the 401 response indicates that authorization has been refused for those credentials. The user agent <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> repeat the request with a new or replaced <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a> header field (<a href="#header.authorization" id="rfc.xref.header.authorization.2" title="Authorization">Section&nbsp;4.1</a>). If the 401 response contains the same challenge as the prior response, and the user agent has already attempted authentication
    784          at least once, then the user agent <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> present the enclosed representation to the user, since it usually contains relevant diagnostic information.
    785       </p>
    786       <div id="rfc.iref.8"></div>
    787       <h2 id="rfc.section.3.2"><a href="#rfc.section.3.2">3.2</a>&nbsp;<a id="status.407" href="#status.407">407 Proxy Authentication Required</a></h2>
    788       <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.1">The <dfn>407 (Proxy Authentication Required)</dfn> status code is similar to <a href="#status.401" class="smpl">401 (Unauthorized)</a>, but indicates that the client needs to authenticate itself in order to use a proxy. The proxy <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> send a <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" class="smpl">Proxy-Authenticate</a> header field (<a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.proxy-authenticate.1" title="Proxy-Authenticate">Section&nbsp;4.2</a>) containing a challenge applicable to that proxy for the target resource. The client <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> repeat the request with a new or replaced <a href="#header.proxy-authorization" class="smpl">Proxy-Authorization</a> header field (<a href="#header.proxy-authorization" id="rfc.xref.header.proxy-authorization.1" title="Proxy-Authorization">Section&nbsp;4.3</a>).
    789       </p>
    790       <h1 id="rfc.section.4"><a href="#rfc.section.4">4.</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.field.definitions" href="#header.field.definitions">Header Field Definitions</a></h1>
    791       <p id="rfc.section.4.p.1">This section defines the syntax and semantics of HTTP/1.1 header fields related to authentication.</p>
    792       <div id="rfc.iref.a.1"></div>
    793       <h2 id="rfc.section.4.1"><a href="#rfc.section.4.1">4.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.authorization" href="#header.authorization">Authorization</a></h2>
    794       <p id="rfc.section.4.1.p.1">The "Authorization" header field allows a user agent to authenticate itself with an origin server — usually, but not necessarily,
    795          after receiving a <a href="#status.401" class="smpl">401
    796             (Unauthorized)</a> response. Its value consists of credentials containing information of the user agent for the realm of the resource being requested.
    797       </p>
    798       <div id="rfc.figure.u.4"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.6"></span>  <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a> = <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">credentials</a>
    799 </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,
    800          such as credentials that vary according to a challenge value or using synchronized clocks).
    801       </p>
    802       <p id="rfc.section.4.1.p.4">See <a href="p6-cache.html#caching.authenticated.responses" title="Storing Responses to Authenticated Requests">Section 3.2</a> of <a href="#Part6" id="rfc.xref.Part6.3"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching">[Part6]</cite></a> for details of and requirements pertaining to handling of the Authorization field by HTTP caches.
    803       </p>
    804       <div id="rfc.iref.p.2"></div>
    805       <h2 id="rfc.section.4.2"><a href="#rfc.section.4.2">4.2</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.proxy-authenticate" href="#header.proxy-authenticate">Proxy-Authenticate</a></h2>
    806       <p id="rfc.section.4.2.p.1">The "Proxy-Authenticate" header field consists of at least one challenge that indicates the authentication scheme(s) and parameters
    807          applicable to the proxy for this effective request URI (<a href="p1-messaging.html#effective.request.uri" title="Effective Request URI">Section 5.5</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.5"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>). It <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included as part of a <a href="#status.407" class="smpl">407 (Proxy Authentication Required)</a> response.
    808       </p>
    809       <div id="rfc.figure.u.5"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.7"></span>  <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" class="smpl">Proxy-Authenticate</a> = 1#<a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">challenge</a>
    810 </pre><p id="rfc.section.4.2.p.3">Unlike <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a>, the Proxy-Authenticate header field applies only to the current connection, and intermediaries <em class="bcp14">SHOULD NOT</em> forward it to downstream clients. However, an intermediate proxy might need to obtain its own credentials by requesting them
    811          from the downstream client, which in some circumstances will appear as if the proxy is forwarding the Proxy-Authenticate header
    812          field.
    813       </p>
    814       <p id="rfc.section.4.2.p.4">Note that the parsing considerations for <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a> apply to this header field as well; see <a href="#header.www-authenticate" id="rfc.xref.header.www-authenticate.2" title="WWW-Authenticate">Section&nbsp;4.4</a> for details.
    815       </p>
    816       <div id="rfc.iref.p.3"></div>
    817       <h2 id="rfc.section.4.3"><a href="#rfc.section.4.3">4.3</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.proxy-authorization" href="#header.proxy-authorization">Proxy-Authorization</a></h2>
    818       <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 that requires authentication.
    819          Its value consists of credentials containing the authentication information of the client for the proxy and/or realm of the
    820          resource being requested.
    821       </p>
    822       <div id="rfc.figure.u.6"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.8"></span>  <a href="#header.proxy-authorization" class="smpl">Proxy-Authorization</a> = <a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">credentials</a>
    823 </pre><p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.3">Unlike <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a>, the Proxy-Authorization header field applies only to the next outbound proxy that demanded authentication using the <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" class="smpl">Proxy-Authenticate</a> field. When multiple proxies are used in a chain, the Proxy-Authorization header field is consumed by the first outbound proxy
    824          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
    825          authenticate a given request.
    826       </p>
    827       <div id="rfc.iref.w.1"></div>
    828       <h2 id="rfc.section.4.4"><a href="#rfc.section.4.4">4.4</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.www-authenticate" href="#header.www-authenticate">WWW-Authenticate</a></h2>
    829       <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
    830          applicable to the effective request URI (<a href="p1-messaging.html#effective.request.uri" title="Effective Request URI">Section 5.5</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.6"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
    831       </p>
    832       <p id="rfc.section.4.4.p.2">It <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included in <a href="#status.401" class="smpl">401 (Unauthorized)</a> 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
    833          response.
    834       </p>
    835       <div id="rfc.figure.u.7"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.9"></span>  <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a> = 1#<a href="#challenge.and.response" class="smpl">challenge</a>
    836 </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
    837          challenge, or if more than one WWW-Authenticate header field is provided, the contents of a challenge itself can contain a
    838          comma-separated list of authentication parameters.
    839       </p>
    840       <div id="rfc.figure.u.8"></div>
    841       <p>For instance:</p><pre class="text">  WWW-Authenticate: Newauth realm="apps", type=1,
    842                     title="Login to \"apps\"", Basic realm="simple"
    843 </pre><p>This header field contains two challenges; one for the "Newauth" scheme with a realm value of "apps", and two additional parameters
    844          "type" and "title", and another one for the "Basic" scheme with a realm value of "simple".
    845       </p>
    846       <div class="note" id="rfc.section.4.4.p.6">
    847          <p> <b>Note:</b> The challenge grammar production uses the list syntax as well. Therefore, a sequence of comma, whitespace, and comma can be
    848             considered both as applying to the preceding challenge, or to be an empty entry in the list of challenges. In practice, this
    849             ambiguity does not affect the semantics of the header field value and thus is harmless.
    850          </p>
    851       </div>
    852       <h1 id="rfc.section.5"><a href="#rfc.section.5">5.</a>&nbsp;<a id="IANA.considerations" href="#IANA.considerations">IANA Considerations</a></h1>
    853       <h2 id="rfc.section.5.1"><a href="#rfc.section.5.1">5.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="authentication.scheme.registration" href="#authentication.scheme.registration">Authentication Scheme Registry</a></h2>
    854       <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&nbsp;2.3</a> of this document.
    855       </p>
    856       <p id="rfc.section.5.1.p.2">The HTTP Method Authentication Scheme shall be created at &lt;<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes</a>&gt;.
    857       </p>
    858854      <h2 id="rfc.section.5.2"><a href="#rfc.section.5.2">5.2</a>&nbsp;<a id="status.code.registration" href="#status.code.registration">Status Code Registration</a></h2>
    859855      <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.1">The HTTP Status Code Registry located at &lt;<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes</a>&gt; shall be updated with the registrations below:
    … …  
    10551051      </p>
    10561052      <p id="rfc.section.A.p.4">This specification introduces the Authentication Scheme Registry, along with considerations for new authentication schemes.
    1057          (<a href="#authentication.scheme.registry" title="Authentication Scheme Registry">Section&nbsp;2.3</a>)
     1053         (<a href="#authentication.scheme.registry" title="Authentication Scheme Registry">Section&nbsp;5.1</a>)
    10581054      </p>
    10591055      <h1 id="rfc.section.B"><a href="#rfc.section.B">B.</a>&nbsp;<a id="imported.abnf" href="#imported.abnf">Imported ABNF</a></h1>
    … …  
    11381134         </li>
    11391135         <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/463">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/463</a>&gt;: "Editorial suggestions"
     1136         </li>
     1137         <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/464">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/464</a>&gt;: "placement of extension point considerations"
    11401138         </li>
    11411139      </ul>
    … …  
    11791177            </li>
    11801178            <li><a id="rfc.index.P" href="#rfc.index.P"><b>P</b></a><ul>
    1181                   <li><em>Part1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">2.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">4.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">6</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">7</a>, <a href="#Part1"><b>8.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.9">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.10">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.11">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.12">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.13">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.14">C</a><ul>
     1179                  <li><em>Part1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">4.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">5.1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">6</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">7</a>, <a href="#Part1"><b>8.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.9">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.10">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.11">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.12">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.13">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.14">C</a><ul>
    11821180                        <li><em>Section 1.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.14">C</a></li>
    1183                         <li><em>Section 2.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">2.3.1</a></li>
     1181                        <li><em>Section 2.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">5.1.2</a></li>
    11841182                        <li><em>Section 2.5</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1.1</a></li>
    11851183                        <li><em>Section 3.2.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.10">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.11">B</a></li>
    11861184                        <li><em>Section 3.2.6</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.12">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.13">B</a></li>
    1187                         <li><em>Section 5.5</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">4.4</a></li>
     1185                        <li><em>Section 5.5</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">4.4</a></li>
    11881186                        <li><em>Section 9</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">7</a></li>
    11891187                     </ul>
    … …  
    11931191                     </ul>
    11941192                  </li>
    1195                   <li><em>Part6</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.1">2.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.2">2.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.3">4.1</a>, <a href="#Part6"><b>8.1</b></a><ul>
    1196                         <li><em>Section 3.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.3">4.1</a></li>
    1197                         <li><em>Section 7.2.1.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.2">2.3.1</a></li>
    1198                         <li><em>Section 7.2.2.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.1">2.3.1</a></li>
     1193                  <li><em>Part6</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.1">4.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.2">5.1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.3">5.1.2</a>, <a href="#Part6"><b>8.1</b></a><ul>
     1194                        <li><em>Section 3.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.1">4.1</a></li>
     1195                        <li><em>Section 7.2.1.5</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.3">5.1.2</a></li>
     1196                        <li><em>Section 7.2.2.6</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.2">5.1.2</a></li>
    11991197                     </ul>
    12001198                  </li>
    … …  
    12141212                  <li><em>RFC3986</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.RFC3986.1">2.1</a>, <a href="#RFC3986"><b>8.2</b></a></li>
    12151213                  <li><em>RFC4648</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.RFC4648.1">2.1</a>, <a href="#RFC4648"><b>8.2</b></a></li>
    1216                   <li><em>RFC5226</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5226.1">2.3</a>, <a href="#RFC5226"><b>8.2</b></a><ul>
    1217                         <li><em>Section 4.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5226.1">2.3</a></li>
     1214                  <li><em>RFC5226</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5226.1">5.1.1</a>, <a href="#RFC5226"><b>8.2</b></a><ul>
     1215                        <li><em>Section 4.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5226.1">5.1.1</a></li>
    12181216                     </ul>
    12191217                  </li>

  • draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p7-auth.xml

    r2232 r2242  
    314314</section>
    315315
    316 <section title="Authentication Scheme Registry" anchor="authentication.scheme.registry">
    317 <t>
    318   The HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry defines the name space for the
    319   authentication schemes in challenges and credentials.
    320 </t>
    321 <t>
    322   Registrations &MUST; include the following fields:
    323   <list style="symbols">
    324     <t>Authentication Scheme Name</t>
    325     <t>Pointer to specification text</t>
    326     <t>Notes (optional)</t>
    327   </list>
    328 </t>
    329 <t>
    330   Values to be added to this name space require IETF Review
    331   (see <xref target="RFC5226" x:fmt="," x:sec="4.1"/>).
    332 </t>
    333 <t>
    334   The registry itself is maintained at <eref target="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes"/>.
    335 </t>
    336 
    337 <section title="Considerations for New Authentication Schemes" anchor="considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes">
    338 <t>
    339   There are certain aspects of the HTTP Authentication Framework that put
    340   constraints on how new authentication schemes can work:
    341 </t>
    342 <t>
    343   <list style="symbols">
    344     <x:lt>
    345     <t>
    346       HTTP authentication is presumed to be stateless: all of the information
    347       necessary to authenticate a request &MUST; be provided in the request,
    348       rather than be dependent on the server remembering prior requests.
    349       Authentication based on, or bound to, the underlying connection is
    350       outside the scope of this specification and inherently flawed unless
    351       steps are taken to ensure that the connection cannot be used by any
    352       party other than the authenticated user
    353       (see &msg-orient-and-buffering;).
    354     </t>
    355     </x:lt>
    356     <x:lt>
    357     <t>
    358       The authentication parameter "realm" is reserved for defining Protection
    359       Spaces as defined in <xref target="protection.space"/>. New schemes
    360       &MUST-NOT; use it in a way incompatible with that definition.
    361     </t>
    362     </x:lt>
    363     <x:lt>
    364     <t>
    365       The "token68" notation was introduced for compatibility with existing
    366       authentication schemes and can only be used once per challenge or credential.
    367       New schemes thus ought to use the "auth-param" syntax instead, because
    368       otherwise future extensions will be impossible.
    369     </t>
    370     </x:lt>
    371     <x:lt>
    372     <t>
    373       The parsing of challenges and credentials is defined by this specification,
    374       and cannot be modified by new authentication schemes. When the auth-param
    375       syntax is used, all parameters ought to support both token and
    376       quoted-string syntax, and syntactical constraints ought to be defined on
    377       the field value after parsing (i.e., quoted-string processing). This is
    378       necessary so that recipients can use a generic parser that applies to
    379       all authentication schemes.
    380     </t>
    381     <t>
    382       &Note; The fact that the value syntax for the "realm" parameter
    383       is restricted to quoted-string was a bad design choice not to be repeated
    384       for new parameters.
    385     </t>
    386     </x:lt>
    387     <x:lt>
    388     <t>
    389       Definitions of new schemes ought to define the treatment of unknown
    390       extension parameters. In general, a "must-ignore" rule is preferable
    391       over "must-understand", because otherwise it will be hard to introduce
    392       new parameters in the presence of legacy recipients. Furthermore,
    393       it's good to describe the policy for defining new parameters (such
    394       as "update the specification", or "use this registry").
    395     </t>
    396     </x:lt>
    397     <x:lt>
    398     <t>
    399       Authentication schemes need to document whether they are usable in
    400       origin-server authentication (i.e., using <x:ref>WWW-Authenticate</x:ref>),
    401       and/or proxy authentication (i.e., using <x:ref>Proxy-Authenticate</x:ref>).
    402     </t>
    403     </x:lt>
    404     <x:lt>
    405     <t>
    406       The credentials carried in an <x:ref>Authorization</x:ref> header field are specific to
    407       the User Agent, and therefore have the same effect on HTTP caches as the
    408       "private" Cache-Control response directive (&caching-rsd-private;),
    409       within the scope of the request they appear in.
    410     </t>
    411     <t>
    412       Therefore, new authentication schemes that choose not to carry
    413       credentials in the <x:ref>Authorization</x:ref> header field (e.g., using a newly defined
    414       header field) will need to explicitly disallow caching, by mandating the use of
    415       either Cache-Control request directives (e.g., "no-store",
    416       &caching-rqd-no-store;) or response directives (e.g., "private").
    417     </t>
    418     </x:lt>
    419   </list>
    420 </t>
    421 </section>
    422 
    423 </section>
    424 
    425316</section>
    426317
    … …  
    597488<section title="IANA Considerations" anchor="IANA.considerations">
    598489
    599 <section title="Authentication Scheme Registry" anchor="authentication.scheme.registration">
    600 <t>
    601   The registration procedure for HTTP Authentication Schemes is defined by
    602   <xref target="authentication.scheme.registry"/> of this document.
    603 </t>
    604 <t>
    605    The HTTP Method Authentication Scheme shall be created at <eref target="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes"/>.
    606 </t>
     490<section title="Authentication Scheme Registry" anchor="authentication.scheme.registry">
     491<t>
     492   The HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry defines the name space for the
     493   authentication schemes in challenges and credentials. It is maintained at
     494   <eref target="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes"/>.
     495</t>
     496
     497<section title="Procedure" anchor="authentication.scheme.registry.procedure">
     498<t>
     499  Registrations &MUST; include the following fields:
     500  <list style="symbols">
     501    <t>Authentication Scheme Name</t>
     502    <t>Pointer to specification text</t>
     503    <t>Notes (optional)</t>
     504  </list>
     505</t>
     506<t>
     507  Values to be added to this name space require IETF Review
     508  (see <xref target="RFC5226" x:fmt="," x:sec="4.1"/>).
     509</t>
     510</section>
     511
     512<section title="Considerations for New Authentication Schemes" anchor="considerations.for.new.authentication.schemes">
     513<t>
     514  There are certain aspects of the HTTP Authentication Framework that put
     515  constraints on how new authentication schemes can work:
     516</t>
     517<t>
     518  <list style="symbols">
     519    <x:lt>
     520    <t>
     521      HTTP authentication is presumed to be stateless: all of the information
     522      necessary to authenticate a request &MUST; be provided in the request,
     523      rather than be dependent on the server remembering prior requests.
     524      Authentication based on, or bound to, the underlying connection is
     525      outside the scope of this specification and inherently flawed unless
     526      steps are taken to ensure that the connection cannot be used by any
     527      party other than the authenticated user
     528      (see &msg-orient-and-buffering;).
     529    </t>
     530    </x:lt>
     531    <x:lt>
     532    <t>
     533      The authentication parameter "realm" is reserved for defining Protection
     534      Spaces as defined in <xref target="protection.space"/>. New schemes
     535      &MUST-NOT; use it in a way incompatible with that definition.
     536    </t>
     537    </x:lt>
     538    <x:lt>
     539    <t>
     540      The "token68" notation was introduced for compatibility with existing
     541      authentication schemes and can only be used once per challenge or credential.
     542      New schemes thus ought to use the "auth-param" syntax instead, because
     543      otherwise future extensions will be impossible.
     544    </t>
     545    </x:lt>
     546    <x:lt>
     547    <t>
     548      The parsing of challenges and credentials is defined by this specification,
     549      and cannot be modified by new authentication schemes. When the auth-param
     550      syntax is used, all parameters ought to support both token and
     551      quoted-string syntax, and syntactical constraints ought to be defined on
     552      the field value after parsing (i.e., quoted-string processing). This is
     553      necessary so that recipients can use a generic parser that applies to
     554      all authentication schemes.
     555    </t>
     556    <t>
     557      &Note; The fact that the value syntax for the "realm" parameter
     558      is restricted to quoted-string was a bad design choice not to be repeated
     559      for new parameters.
     560    </t>
     561    </x:lt>
     562    <x:lt>
     563    <t>
     564      Definitions of new schemes ought to define the treatment of unknown
     565      extension parameters. In general, a "must-ignore" rule is preferable
     566      over "must-understand", because otherwise it will be hard to introduce
     567      new parameters in the presence of legacy recipients. Furthermore,
     568      it's good to describe the policy for defining new parameters (such
     569      as "update the specification", or "use this registry").
     570    </t>
     571    </x:lt>
     572    <x:lt>
     573    <t>
     574      Authentication schemes need to document whether they are usable in
     575      origin-server authentication (i.e., using <x:ref>WWW-Authenticate</x:ref>),
     576      and/or proxy authentication (i.e., using <x:ref>Proxy-Authenticate</x:ref>).
     577    </t>
     578    </x:lt>
     579    <x:lt>
     580    <t>
     581      The credentials carried in an <x:ref>Authorization</x:ref> header field are specific to
     582      the User Agent, and therefore have the same effect on HTTP caches as the
     583      "private" Cache-Control response directive (&caching-rsd-private;),
     584      within the scope of the request they appear in.
     585    </t>
     586    <t>
     587      Therefore, new authentication schemes that choose not to carry
     588      credentials in the <x:ref>Authorization</x:ref> header field (e.g., using a newly defined
     589      header field) will need to explicitly disallow caching, by mandating the use of
     590      either Cache-Control request directives (e.g., "no-store",
     591      &caching-rqd-no-store;) or response directives (e.g., "private").
     592    </t>
     593    </x:lt>
     594  </list>
     595</t>
     596</section>
    607597</section>
    608598
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    11761166      "Editorial suggestions"
    11771167    </t>
     1168    <t>
     1169      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/464"/>:
     1170      "placement of extension point considerations"
     1171    </t>
    11781172  </list>
    11791173</t>
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