[sr-dev] git:master: auth: added new error code to auth API
Juha Heinanen
jh at tutpro.com
Tue Nov 15 03:15:00 CET 2011
Alex Balashov writes:
> The problem, as you well know, is that not having the check allows a
> user A to impersonate the identity of any other user B, as long as
> user A has his own valid credentials for himself.
yes, i well know it and therefore one needs to check if the user really
owns the uri or not. to make an automatic invalid check is in my opinion
a very bad idea, since according to rfc3261 uri userpart does not have
anything to do with user's authentication username.
-- juha
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