[whatwg] Solving the login/logout problem in HTML

[Julian Reschke]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> ...
> I don't understand why it makes a difference what the form is like. It 
> should apply whatever credentials it has been given -- whatever those 
> might be, username/password, certificate, fake addressa and phone number, 
> whatever, and submit the form. Just like a user.
> ...

If the form is more complex than two fields (identity/secret), then I 
don't see how authentication is going to work except by displaying the 
form -- just extracting the field names certainly wouldn't be 
sufficient, even if they would be reasonable self-describing.

So, in the current form, this proposal only helps in marking the 
server's response as *being* a login form, but not really in making it 
more usable for a non-HTML client...

BR, Julian