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I like that idea, combined with well known. Ex:
https://<targetofcname>/.well-known/capport-api/xyz Ideally there would be some standardized precedence order as there are different cases for each of these. An example would be a common DNS a service that doesn’t have views-like functionality
so the ability to return a different value based on the source IP/subnet may not be possible. In this case, the operator may have control of DHCP and could use 7710. Tim Tim Cappalli
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| Aruba Security
| @timcappalli From: Captive-portals <[email protected]> on behalf of Lorenzo Colitti <[email protected]> All, During discussions with captive portal operators about implementing the capport API, one of the stumbling blocks that keeps coming up is that the captive portal operator does not always control the DHCP configuration and thus cannot easily
use RFC7710. The WG has previously rejected the option of using a well-known DNS name to discover the URL, because the API itself requires TLS, and without a hostname it is not possible (or at least not easy) to validate the server. However, what if
the client did a CNAME query for capport.arpa (or equivalent other local-only, non-DNSSEC-signed name), got back a CNAME for the real server, and then assumed that the API server was
https://<targetofcname>/capport-api ? Alternatively, Erik and Warren suggest RFC 7553. In this scheme the client would do a URI lookup for "capport.arpa" or equivalent, and would take the result of that URL as the API endpoint. Thoughts? Regards, Lorenzo |