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Best regards, Byron Campen
Exactly - we may have infinity message flow: (Request with bad credential) <-> (401 with challenge) I don't see any use cases when 401 will help. Even if you use pool of proxies - you may share one nonce helper key among servers. But if somebody provides credential for YOUR domain/ip and it does not contain proper nonce - it should be rejected. Regards Alexander Altshuler http://xeepe.com -----Original Message----- From: Byron Campen [mailto:bcampen@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:38 PM To: Alexander Altshuler Cc: 'resiprocate-devel'Subject: Re: [reSIProcate] Helper::advancedAuthenticateRequest() and oldnonces This is certainly useful. Do you have an opinion on the 403 vs. 401 issue though? It seems that sending a 403 buys us absolutely nothing, and hurts interop besides. I see no reason to continue doing it. I could maybe see sending a 403 if someone sends us credentials that are malformed, on the assumption that the endpoint is broken and we should just tell it to shut up. (This brings up the question of how we deal with endpoints that don't know when to quit sending us bad credentials.)
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