[OpenID] Proposal: SMTP service extension for Yadis discovery

Dmitry Shechtman damnian at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 21:24:29 UTC 2007


> It can actually be quite tricky in some cases to get at the
> authentication header. Apache does not allow direct access to that
> header value from CGI scripts, and it only makes the username available 
> in the REMOTE_USER environment variable if it has successfully completed 
> some kind of authentication.

In order to avoid confusion (considering the subject title), all this has
nothing to do with the original proposal (i.e. use SMTP for discovery).


Regards,
Dmitry
=damnian




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