HTTP key lookup request and Host: (was: Re: key server lookup protocol?)

[Gerald Young <yog@xxxxxxx>]

On 1997-10-28 23:04, Pat Richard patr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Frank Brueckner wrote:
>>
>> An additional question to that (older) thread:
>>
>> >    > PGP 5.0 sends the following request:
>> >    > "GET /pks/lookup?op=get&exact=on&search=<Email Address|Key ID> HTTP/1.0"
>> >
>> > Now, with 5.5, we have an ldap server, which will make things a lot easier.
>> > We support the old HTTP one, but the ldap one is the way to go.
>> >
>> > Jon Callas                                         jon@xxxxxxx
>
>So where is the document describing this and where does it sit within
>the ietf-open-pgp framework. Does this exist ? Will the group accept
>submissions from third parties who already have been storing PGP keys in
>LDAP already, or is this not going to be part of open-pgp ? What is the
>format by which 5.5 does the LDAP queries ?

Sorry to drop in, but I had some problems with most HTTP based client software.
It manifests in the ommission of the "Host:" request parameter line, which is needed by multi-homed servers (like say Apache) to properly detect to which of its served hosts the request was directed.

Is the HTTP based lookup of keys adhering to this?

( Sorry, I dropped the last draft of the document just yesterday due to time constraints and found this - naturally - this morning)

-- Gerald Young

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