Re: [community] from W3C….Fwd: Proposal: "User" header field

[Torsten Lodderstedt]

Hi,

could you please shed some light on the use case for the User field? What entity sets the value, what entitity uses it for what purpose? 

Regards,
Torsten.



Kingsley Idehen <kidehen at openlinksw.com> schrieb:

>On 7/18/13 1:38 PM, Torsten Lodderstedt wrote:
>> I fully agree with George und would like to add: why don't you just 
>> use the authorization header to send identity data/credentials/tokens
>
>> to the server in order to allow for access control?
>
>This is already possible. The requirement here stems from the fact that
>
>"From:" is bound specifically to mailto: scheme URIs (Uniform Resource 
>Identifiers). We are looking to "User:" to be the superClass of "From:"
>
>which is basically URI scheme agnostic. That's it.
>
>[SNIP]
>
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