header field value character encoding, was: Rechartering HTTPbis

On 2012-02-06 19:02, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> mån 2012-02-06 klockan 10:07 +0100 skrev Julian Reschke:
>
>> It doesn't affect Basic auth at all, because Basic uses plain-ASCII (so
>> the encoding happens on a different layer).
>
> True. But it does affect Digest auth, and can't be recoded there without
> breaking the digest. Plus that browsers vary greatly in what encoding
> they use within basic auth before base64-encoding so in a sense it does
> affect basic auth as well.

I agree that Basic auth has a problem, but it's not going to be fixed by 
changing the encoding default for field values.

See 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-latest.html>.

Best regards, Julian