[whatwg] Re: Web form and HTTP authentication

Aaron Swartz aaronsw at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 07:37:16 PDT 2004


+1 to adding HTML support for Digest Auth. This is a well-needed
security measure. And it'd b easy to make it backwards compatible
(with an attribute on <form> for example) so that if the browser
didn't support the new HTML features it would fall back to a
traditional HTTP POST.



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