Changeset 698 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p7-auth.html

Timestamp:

Sep 26, 2009, 3:09:09 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

editorial: enhance readability of header introductions

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• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p7-auth.html (modified) (8 diffs)

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

@@ -390 +390 @@
       <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Reschke, J. F.">
       <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="urn:ietf:id:draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-latest">
-      <meta name="DC.Date.Issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2009-09-25">
+      <meta name="DC.Date.Issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2009-09-26">
       <meta name="DC.Relation.Replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2616">
       <meta name="DC.Description.Abstract" 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 &#34;HTTP/1.1&#34; and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 7 defines HTTP Authentication.">
@@ -427 +427 @@
          </tr>
          <tr>
-            <td class="header left">Expires: March 29, 2010</td>
+            <td class="header left">Expires: March 30, 2010</td>
             <td class="header right">H. Frystyk</td>
          </tr>
@@ -476 +476 @@
          <tr>
             <td class="header left"></td>
-            <td class="header right">September 25, 2009</td>
+            <td class="header right">September 26, 2009</td>
          </tr>
       </table>
@@ -500 +500 @@
       <p>The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at &lt;<a href="http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html">http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html</a>&gt;.
       </p>
-      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire in March 29, 2010.</p>
+      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire in March 30, 2010.</p>
       <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1>
       <p>Copyright © 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p>
@@ -627 +627 @@
       <div id="rfc.iref.h.1"></div>
       <h2 id="rfc.section.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.3.1">3.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.authorization" href="#header.authorization">Authorization</a></h2>
-      <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.1">A user agent that wishes to authenticate itself with a server-- usually, but not necessarily, after receiving a 401 response--does
-         so by including an "Authorization" request-header field with the request. The field value consists of credentials containing
-         the authentication information of the user agent for the realm of the resource being requested.
+      <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.1">The "Authorization" request-header field allows a user agent to authenticate itself with a server -- usually, but not necessary,
+         after receiving a 401 (Unauthorized) response. Its value consists of credentials containing information of the user agent
+         for the realm of the resource being requested.
       </p>
       <div id="rfc.figure.u.3"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.3"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.4"></span>  <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization</a>   = "Authorization" ":" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> <a href="#header.authorization" class="smpl">Authorization-v</a>
@@ -652 +652 @@
       <div id="rfc.iref.h.2"></div>
       <h2 id="rfc.section.3.2"><a href="#rfc.section.3.2">3.2</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.proxy-authenticate" href="#header.proxy-authenticate">Proxy-Authenticate</a></h2>
-      <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.1">The "Proxy-Authenticate" response-header field <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included as part of a 407 (Proxy Authentication Required) response. The field value consists of a challenge that indicates
-         the authentication scheme and parameters applicable to the proxy for this request-target.
+      <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.1">The "Proxy-Authenticate" response-header field consists of a challenge that indicates the authentication scheme and parameters
+         applicable to the proxy for this request-target. It <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included as part of a 407 (Proxy Authentication Required) response.
       </p>
       <div id="rfc.figure.u.4"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.5"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.6"></span>  <a href="#header.proxy-authenticate" class="smpl">Proxy-Authenticate</a>   = "Proxy-Authenticate" ":" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a>
@@ -666 +666 @@
       <h2 id="rfc.section.3.3"><a href="#rfc.section.3.3">3.3</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.proxy-authorization" href="#header.proxy-authorization">Proxy-Authorization</a></h2>
       <p id="rfc.section.3.3.p.1">The "Proxy-Authorization" request-header field allows the client to identify itself (or its user) to a proxy which requires
-         authentication. The Proxy-Authorization field value consists of credentials containing the authentication information of the
-         user agent for the proxy and/or realm of the resource being requested.
+         authentication. Its value consists of credentials containing the authentication information of the user agent for the proxy
+         and/or realm of the resource being requested.
       </p>
       <div id="rfc.figure.u.5"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.7"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.8"></span>  <a href="#header.proxy-authorization" class="smpl">Proxy-Authorization</a>   = "Proxy-Authorization" ":" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a>
@@ -680 +680 @@
       <div id="rfc.iref.h.4"></div>
       <h2 id="rfc.section.3.4"><a href="#rfc.section.3.4">3.4</a>&nbsp;<a id="header.www-authenticate" href="#header.www-authenticate">WWW-Authenticate</a></h2>
-      <p id="rfc.section.3.4.p.1">The "WWW-Authenticate" response-header field <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included in 401 (Unauthorized) response messages. The field value consists of at least one challenge that indicates the
-         authentication scheme(s) and parameters applicable to the request-target.
+      <p id="rfc.section.3.4.p.1">The "WWW-Authenticate" response-header field consists of at least one challenge that indicates the authentication scheme(s)
+         and parameters applicable to the request-target. It <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be included in 401 (Unauthorized) response messages.
       </p>
       <div id="rfc.figure.u.6"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.9"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.10"></span>  <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate</a>   = "WWW-Authenticate" ":" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> <a href="#header.www-authenticate" class="smpl">WWW-Authenticate-v</a>