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Re: [Captive-portals] API access and .well-known



Adam Roach <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> Adam Roach <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> > I agree that we should strictly avoid synthesizing URLs in general,
    >> > and should try to avoid .well-known URLs in particular. Sometimes
    >> > you're forced to use .well-known (e.g., when there's literally no way
    >> > to get a full URL to the client), but that doesn't seem to be the case
    >> > here.
    >>
    >> Is it reasonable for different enforcements points to return different URLs
    >> to different clients?  If so, that solves much of the multi-tenancy problems,
    >> and I guess I recant some of my previous message.

    > Sure, either in a 3xx response; or, if we're using Link: relations, those
    > URLs can vary based on the client. If you want to get fancy about it, you can
    > even have your DHCP server hand out different URLs in the RFC7710
    > field. There are a lot of ways to deal with multi-tenancy.

    >> I'd still like to register a /.well-known value as a suggestion.

Adams asks "Why?"

I anticipate some not-yet-well-defined situations where the RFC7710 field can
not automatically be passed to a browser that has a human there.
For diagnostics and support service interactions.

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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