[jira] Assigned: (COUCHDB-969) Basic Auth fails when : is present in password

["Robert Newson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-969?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Robert Newson reassigned COUCHDB-969:
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    Assignee: Robert Newson

> Basic Auth fails when : is present in password
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-969
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-969
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: HTTP Interface
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.1
>            Reporter: Isaac Z. Schlueter
>            Assignee: Robert Newson
>
> To reproduce:
> 1. Create a new user "testfunkychars" with password "12:12"
> 2. Logging in as this user in futon works, and will show up as "testfunkychars" in the userCtx in a validate_doc_update function.
> 3. Presenting a header of "Authorization: Basic dGVzdGZ1bmt5Y2hhcnM6MTI6MTI=" does not work, and shows up as "null" in userCtx.
> According to the RFC 2617, the proper way to supply a Basic authorization header is:
> Authorization: Basic [basic-credentials]
> where [basic-credentials] is the base64 of userid + ":" + pass, where userid is *<TEXT except ":"> and pass is *<TEXT>.
> Thus, the proper way to construct this header is:
> echo -n "testfunkychars:12:12" | base64
> which outputs: dGVzdGZ1bmt5Y2hhcnM6MTI6MTI=.
> The only way to log in, however, is to POST the data to /_session, and then supply the cookie.
> For now, rather than add the complexity of cookie and session management to my application, I will simply not allow : characters in passwords.  It would be better if couchdb handled : characters in passwords.

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