This document motivates and describes an extension to HTTP which allows protection spaces to be extended across multiple servers residing in possibly different domains. These servers form groups that allow browsers to obtain authentication information from a user jut once while accessing information on any one server cooperating in such a group...
By: A. Hutchison, M. Kaiserswerth and P. Trommler
Published in: RZ2811 in 1996
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