GSSWEB PROTOCOL DESCRIPTION This file describes the protocol used for GSSWeb authentication. Note: All messages in the protocol are exchanged in 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' format, and no newlines should be inserted into the base64 output. The client goes to //gss and does a POST containing: token: nonce: The server will respond by sending a JSON response: {gssweb: { token= "", nonce= ""}, application: { data: "", content-type: "", content-length: ""} } The "gssweb" section in the response is used for the GSS exchange. If no token was returned by the call to gss_accept_sec_context(), the "token" value will be a zero-length string. The "application" section contains the original server-side application or web server response, which will contain an error response unless/until the GSS exchange completes successfully. Upon completion of the exchange (whether successful or not), the client can use the application data to reconstruct the original response and pass it up to the client-side application.