- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:28:49 +1300
- To: <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 07.02.2012 07:02, 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. > > Regards > Henrik I thought that pre-base64 representation was what this draft was about. To label the "user:pass" string as being in UTF-8 before base-64 encoding was applied converting it to ASCII for the HTTP transfer. So that the decoder at the other end know what the base64-decoded octets arriving were. AYJ
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