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Client-Cert HTTP Header: Conveying Client Certificate Information from TLS Terminating Reverse Proxies to Origin Server Applications
draft-bdc-something-something-certificate-04

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Replaced".
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Author Brian Campbell
Last updated 2020-11-16 (Latest revision 2020-05-07)
Replaced by draft-ietf-httpbis-client-cert-field, draft-ietf-httpbis-client-cert-field, RFC 9440
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Abstract

This document defines the HTTP header field "Client-Cert" that allows a TLS terminating reverse proxy to convey information about the client certificate of a mutually-authenticated TLS connection to an origin server in a common and predictable manner.

Authors

Brian Campbell

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