Re: my first web service -- WEB400

Subject: Re: my first web service
From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:30:38 -0500
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2 trips are required only if the first request does not contain the
credentials.

True enough.

As for the browser issue, we're not talking about browsers, we're
talking about web services. I don't consider basic authentication (or
digest) to be an acceptable form of auth for a browser app. I'm sorry,
but if I see an app that prompts me for my username and password in a
browser popup it just smells of amateur hour. I don't get that popup at
Amazon, Buy, or NYTimes, why should I get it at MyCompany.com

-Walden

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