From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
To: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: [PATCH 07/14] weaken specification over cookies for authentication
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 01:07:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378832878-12811-8-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378832878-12811-7-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com>
From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
--
To Shawn: sign-off-by needed.
Based on the discussion in
<20091009195035.GA15153@coredump.intra.peff.net>,
<20091015165228.GO10505@spearce.org> (patch),
<20091015173902.GA22262@sigill.intra.peff.net> (agreement)
From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Message-ID: <20091015165228.GO10505@spearce.org>
I weakend the sections on cookies:
+ Authentication
+ --------------
....
+ Servers SHOULD NOT require HTTP cookies for the purposes of
+ authentication or access control.
and that's all we say on the matter. I took out the Servers MUST
NOT line under session state.
---
Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
index 412b898..2382384 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Clients SHOULD support Basic authentication as described by RFC 2616.
Servers SHOULD support Basic authentication by relying upon the
HTTP server placed in front of the Git server software.
-Servers MUST NOT require HTTP cookies for the purposes of
+Servers SHOULD NOT require HTTP cookies for the purposes of
authentication or access control.
Clients and servers MAY support other common forms of HTTP based
--
1.8.4.rc4.527.g303b16c
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-10 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 5:22 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Return of smart HTTP Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] Add smart-http options to upload-pack, receive-pack Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:22 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] Smart fetch and push over HTTP: server side Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 5:52 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport J.H.
2009-10-09 8:01 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] Document the HTTP transport protocol Sverre Rabbelier
2009-10-09 8:09 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-10-09 8:54 ` Alex Blewitt
2009-10-15 16:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-09 19:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-10-09 19:50 ` Jeff King
2009-10-15 16:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-15 17:39 ` Jeff King
2009-10-09 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-10 10:12 ` Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
2009-10-16 5:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-16 7:19 ` Mike Hommey
2009-10-16 14:21 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-16 14:23 ` Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
2010-04-07 18:16 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 18:19 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 19:11 ` (resend v2) " Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-08 1:47 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-07 19:24 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-10-10 12:17 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-06 4:57 ` Scott Chacon
2010-04-06 6:09 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <u2hd411cc4a1004060652k5a7f8ea4l67a9b079963f4dc4@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-06 13:53 ` Scott Chacon
2010-04-06 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 00/14] document edits to original http protocol documentation Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 01/14] Document the HTTP transport protocol Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 02/14] normalize indentation with protcol-common.txt Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 03/14] capitalize key words according to RFC 2119 Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 04/14] normalize rules with RFC 5234 Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 05/14] drop rules, etc. common to the pack protocol Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 06/14] reword behaviour on missing repository or objects Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` Tay Ray Chuan [this message]
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 08/14] mention different variations around $GIT_URL Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 09/14] reduce ambiguity over '?' in $GIT_URL for dumb clients Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 10/14] fix example request/responses Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 11/14] be clearer in place of 'remote repository' phrase Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 12/14] reduce confusion over smart server response behaviour Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 13/14] shift dumb server response details Tay Ray Chuan
2013-09-10 17:07 ` [PATCH 14/14] mention effect of "allow-tip-sha1-in-want" capability on git-upload-pack Tay Ray Chuan
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