HTTP Authentication-Info and Proxy-Authentication-Info Response Header Fields
RFC 7615
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(September 2015; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 2617
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Author | Julian Reschke | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Replaces | draft-reschke-httpauth-auth-info | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Mark Nottingham | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2015-03-12) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7615 (Proposed Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Barry Leiba | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | IANA OK - Actions Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Reschke Request for Comments: 7615 greenbytes Obsoletes: 2617 September 2015 Category: Standards Track ISSN: 2070-1721 HTTP Authentication-Info and Proxy-Authentication-Info Response Header Fields Abstract This specification defines the "Authentication-Info" and "Proxy- Authentication-Info" response header fields for use in Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication schemes that need to return information once the client's authentication credentials have been accepted. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7615. Reschke Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 7615 HTTP Authentication-Info September 2015 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. The Authentication-Info Response Header Field . . . . . . . . 3 3.1. Parameter Value Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. The Proxy-Authentication-Info Response Header Field . . . . . 4 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Reschke Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 7615 HTTP Authentication-Info September 2015 1. Introduction This specification defines the "Authentication-Info" and "Proxy- Authentication-Info" response header fields for use in HTTP authentication schemes ([RFC7235]) that need to return information once the client's authentication credentials have been accepted. Both were previously defined in Section 3 of [RFC2617], defining the HTTP "Digest" authentication scheme. This document generalizes the description for use not only in "Digest" ([RFC7616]), but also in other future schemes that might have the same requirements for carrying additional information during authentication. 2. Notational Conventions This specification uses the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) notation of [RFC5234] with a list extension, defined in Section 7 of [RFC7230], that allows for compact definition of comma-separated lists using a '#' operator (similar to how the '*' operator indicates repetition). The ABNF production for "auth-param" is defined in Section 2.1 of [RFC7235]. 3. The Authentication-Info Response Header Field HTTP authentication schemes can use the Authentication-Info responseShow full document text