Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 24671] - Basic Authentification fails with non-ASCII username/password characters

[Michael Becke <be...@u.washington.edu>]

On Nov 22, 2003, at 6:31 PM, bugzilla@apache.org wrote:
> ------- Additional Comments From olegk@apache.org  2003-11-22 23:31 
> -------
>> The only question then would be if we want to allow another different
>> charset for for the username/password before they are
>> digested/base64 encoded.
>
> I think that should go without saying

Yes, the only caveat being that the digest username and the headers 
will need to be in the same encoding.

>> As for 2.0 do you think we should roll back the support for 8859-1 
>> values in
>> basic authentication?
>
> What if we used ISO-8859-1 to encode the password in the digest scheme 
> instead?

We can support 8859-1 in the password, just not the username, since 
that would require sending the headers as 8859-1.  I guess we might as 
well have partial support for non-ASCII chars now and we can build upon 
it in 2.1.

Mike


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