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Using Forwarded
header (RFC 7239) for inbox forwarding with HTTP Signatures?
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Sorry I missed this! Interesting idea! I'd be curious to hear more. Do you have a concrete sense of how |
POST /inbox2 HTTP/1.1
Host: host2.example
Signature: ...
Forwarded: Signature="..."; Host=host1.example; ... In this example, the |
As another example, I know we're still not at hs2019 support yet, much less the final (incompatible) version, but the RFC 9421 which came out of it does provide another example of forwarding a signed message being annotated with the I do really like the idea of including any headers the relay changed in the Also, I'm not entirely sure this is the best place to be having this discussion? My impression of this repo/document is that it's more of a survey of existing implementations, rather than being intended for normative changes, even just to the extent of "future directions" (EDIT: at least, ones which the community at large hasn't already decided we're working toward). I'm still very new to the AP dev community, so I don't know where this should be, but there's certainly going to be much fewer eyes here than there would be on SocialHub. Footnotes
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Thank you @ag-eitilt -- I was mainly raising it here as a suggestion for a brief mention in "future directions". At the very least, the |
From Section 4, "So, what's the verdict?"
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7239#section-4 mentions a
Forwarded
HTTP header that can be used on HTTP requests to include additional information. Perhaps aspects of the original HTTP signature can be relayed through this header when inbox forwarding takes place? This is something that could be mentioned briefly in the report for a "future directions" type of angle.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: