Re: NetPresenz ftp access --> CL-HTTP migration

• To: lynch@lscorp.com (Richard Lynch)
• Subject: Re: NetPresenz ftp access --> CL-HTTP migration
• From: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
• Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:25:30 -0500
• Cc: www-cl@ai.mit.edu
• In-Reply-To: <v02140b00aef992fdf8a7@[207.152.64.133]>
• Sender: owner-www-cl@ai.mit.edu

Sorry Richard,

Cl-HTTP doesn't do FTP and it doesn't as yet have integration with the
MAC users and groups facilities.

However, the user and group model used by CL-HTTP should be largely
communsurate with the mac model, and therefore, this would be a good
programming project for a mac hacker. This would be a very good idea for a
commerical mac cl-http.

The focus on multiple platforms leads to emphasis on portable code
rather than wedging into specific operating systems.

It is worth noting that Web passwords using the basic authentication method
are *insecure*, i.e. anybody with a base 64 decoder (a function in cl-http)
can capture them.  Therefore, real passwords should never be used with
base 64 authentication.  This is one reason why digest authentication
is now part of the http 1.1 spec (which cl-http was the first web server to
implement).

I take it you got CL-HTTP working for you. 

• NetPresenz ftp access --> CL-HTTP migration
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