>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Williams <[log in to unmask]> writes:
Nicolas> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:01:47AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> I'd been hoping to cut a corner with the HTTP negotiate
>> mechanism. In particular, I had been hoping that we could assume
>> that all the round trips would happen over a single HTTP
>> connection. I know, I know, HTTP doesn't work that way.
Nicolas> Yet isn't that [multiple round-trips] something that
Nicolas> HTTP/Negotiate purportedly supports?
>> However I thought it was going to be fairly complicated to do
>> something else.
Nicolas> I don't think it should be. I've long thought that
Nicolas> security contexts could and should be setup by POSTing each
Nicolas> round-trip to some URL.
>> The more I think about this though,the more I believe that we're
>> actually going to need to support Leif's mechanism for partial
>> context export.
Nicolas> I don't see how you can avoid it. I also don't see the
Nicolas> problem.
As I've been working through things I'm also not seeing a huge problem.
More work, but I think necessary work.
