You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Tomas R <sa...@gmail.com> on 2009/05/01 16:30:32 UTC
[users@httpd] http authentication dialog & unicode
Is it possible to correctly display unicode characters in http
authentication dialog?
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.
See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
" from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org
Re: [users@httpd] http authentication dialog & unicode
Posted by Tomas R <sa...@gmail.com>.
On Fri, 01 May 2009 17:25:21 +0200
André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Tomas R wrote:
> > Is it possible to correctly display unicode characters in http
> > authentication dialog?
>
> I presume you refer to the "Basic authentication" kind of browser
> dialog. Then the answer would be : probably not.
> That's one of these things that awaits a HTTP 2.0 protocol
> redefinition, to properly be centered around Unicode instead of ASCII.
>
> Longer answer :
> This dialog is mostly built-in into the browser. The browser
> displays it, when it gets a 401 response back from the http server
> (Authorization required, type Basic).
> The only element in that dialog that comes from the server, is the
> "realm", which the browser usually displays in the title bar of that
> dialog. That "realm" comes to the browser as a HTTP header of the
> response, and currently HTTP headers, for all intents and purposes,
> are limited to ASCII.
>
I see. Thanks for the explanation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.
See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
" from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org
Re: [users@httpd] http authentication dialog & unicode
Posted by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>.
Tomas R wrote:
> Is it possible to correctly display unicode characters in http
> authentication dialog?
I presume you refer to the "Basic authentication" kind of browser dialog.
Then the answer would be : probably not.
That's one of these things that awaits a HTTP 2.0 protocol redefinition,
to properly be centered around Unicode instead of ASCII.
Longer answer :
This dialog is mostly built-in into the browser. The browser displays
it, when it gets a 401 response back from the http server (Authorization
required, type Basic).
The only element in that dialog that comes from the server, is the
"realm", which the browser usually displays in the title bar of that
dialog. That "realm" comes to the browser as a HTTP header of the
response, and currently HTTP headers, for all intents and purposes, are
limited to ASCII.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.
See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
" from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org