Re: [xml-dev] RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication

Peter Flynn scripsit:

> The OSI stuff was truly a nightmare to implement. An object lesson in  
> how not to construct a suite of protocols. Perhaps the sole legacies of  
> X.500 are the ghastly mess that is AD internals, and the use of the word  
> "distinguished" :-)

Well, LDAP is hardly dead.

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John Cowan              http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      
Would your name perchance be surname Puppet, given name Sock?
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