Changeset 2572

Timestamp:

23/01/14 14:54:05 (8 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

(editorial) rephrase reference to Basic and Digest to point readers to the registry rather than directly to RFC 2617

Location:

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Files:

• p7-auth.html (modified) (1 diff)
• p7-auth.xml (modified) (1 diff)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p7-auth.html

@@ -627 +627 @@
          </p>
          <p id="rfc.section.1.p.2">HTTP provides several <em class="bcp14">OPTIONAL</em> challenge-response authentication schemes that can be used by a server to challenge a client request and by a client to 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>.
+            authentication information. See the IANA Authentication Scheme Registry (<a href="#authentication.scheme.registry" title="Authentication Scheme Registry">Section&nbsp;5.1</a>) for the definitions of the "basic" and "digest" authentication schemes which were defined by <cite title="HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication" id="rfc.xref.RFC2617.2">RFC 2617</cite>.
          </p>
          <div id="conformance">

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

@@ -123 +123 @@
    HTTP provides several &OPTIONAL; challenge-response authentication
    schemes that can be used by a server to challenge a client request and
-   by a client to provide authentication information. The "basic" and "digest"
-   authentication schemes continue to be specified in
-   <xref target="RFC2617" x:fmt="none">RFC 2617</xref>.
+   by a client to provide authentication information. See the IANA
+   Authentication Scheme Registry (<xref target="authentication.scheme.registry"/>)
+   for the definitions of the "basic" and "digest" authentication schemes 
+   which were defined by <xref target="RFC2617" x:fmt="none">RFC 2617</xref>.
 </t>