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Re: Escaping control characters in HTTP Digest (RFC 2617) (was: Escaping <\> in HTTP Digest (RFC 2617))

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 07:49:30 +0200
To: Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Lawrence <ericlaw@exchange.microsoft.com>, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1180072170.31532.8.camel@henriknordstrom.net> 
tor 2007-05-24 klockan 20:33 -0400 skrev Robert Sayre:
> On 5/24/07, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> >
> > The quoting productions in RFC2616 isn't very obvious, but technically
> > the syntax allows any characer 0-127 quoted.
> 
> Do servers actually allow any character 0-127 quoted? So far, my
> research suggests that they don't.

I don't think anyone does.

The specs is written in such manner that TEXT content is assumed, and is
probably what is intended for the digest username as well.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Friday, 25 May 2007 05:49:44 GMT

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