HTTP authentication & timeouts

Mark Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.ws-arch
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:25:54AM -0800, David Orchard wrote:
> So you think authentication and time-outs on the Web are just fine and
> working as designed?

Nice try, but I'm not biting.  I just refuted your claim that HTTP
authentication can't do timeouts; it can.

Perhaps you meant to be more specific in your criticism of the HTTP
authentication model?  I'm trying to keep this discussion focused on
technical arguments.  Examples would be welcome.

MB
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