Re: Digest authentication

wmperry@spry.com
Wed, 26 Apr 95 16:29 PDT


Mike Cowlishaw writes:
> Good to see it works.  Question: why is the 'opaque' field part of
> the WWW-Authenticate: header?  It would seem to be generally useful,
> independent of authentication, and therefore perhaps merits a header
> of its own:
> 
>   Opaque: 34e1....3c81

  I wondered that myself.  It would dovetail nicely with either the
'Session-ID' or 'Cookie' proposals.

-Bill P.