diff --git a/content/tech/hawk.rst b/content/tech/hawk.rst index 6813475..dc88a14 100644 --- a/content/tech/hawk.rst +++ b/content/tech/hawk.rst @@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ We recently had to implement `the Hawk authentication scheme creating two libraries to ease integration into pyramid and node.js apps. But maybe you don't know Hawk. Hawk is a relatively new technology, crafted by -one of the original OAuth specification authors, that intends to replace the -2-legged OAuth authentication scheme using a simpler approach. +one of the original `OAuth `_ +specification authors, that intends to replace the 2-legged OAuth +authentication scheme using a simpler approach. -It is an authentication scheme for HTTP, built around HMAC digests of -requests and responses. +It is an authentication scheme for HTTP, built around `HMAC digests +`_ of requests and responses. Every authenticated client request has an Authorization header containing a MAC and some additional metadata, and each server response to authenticated