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Re: RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: "Petite Abeille" <petite.abeille@gmail.com>,"xml-dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:15:09 -0000

Holy s*** you're right.  Just used wireshark on some HTTP exchanges.  All 
this talk about online security and they effectively allow Base64 as an 
'encryption' algorithm!  People should go to jail for that!  Still think 
it's a bad, bad, bad idea.  SIP has deprecated it and Twitter has disabled 
it.  As I said, I'm pretty sure the IETF wouldn't accept something similar 
to it these days.

Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
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data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
To: "Petite Abeille" <petite.abeille@gmail.com>; "xml-dev" 
<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 9:35 PM
Subject: Re:  RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication


> Convenient doesn't mean good though.  I think it _can_ be used over TLS, 
> but since HTTP needs to support other schemes for non-TLS I can't see the 
> point. I don't think it would accepted if it was introduced today.
>
> Pete Cordell
> Codalogic Ltd
> Interface XML to C++ the easy way using C++ XML
> data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes.
> Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com
> for more info
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Petite Abeille" <petite.abeille@gmail.com>
> To: "xml-dev" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 8:33 PM
> Subject: Re:  RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication
>
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2012, at 9:17 PM, Pete Cordell wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that Basic is essentially considered insecure
>
> Basic is convenient, universally  supported, and meant to be used over TLS 
> if you care about this kind of things.
>
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