- From: Tim Greenwood <greenwood@OpenMarket.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:30:51 +0000
- To: www-international@w3.org
Are non Latin1 characters allowed in Basic Auth. The spec is a little
ambigous - HTTP 1.1 defines
basic-credentials = "Basic" SP basic-cookie
basic-cookie = <base64 [7] encoding of user-pass,
except not limited to 76 char/line>
user-pass = userid ":" password
userid = *<TEXT excluding ":">
password = *TEXT
Userids might be case sensitive.
where TEXT is formally defined as any octet, but with a caveat.
" Words of
*TEXT may contain characters from character sets other than ISO 8859-1
[22] only when encoded according to the rules of RFC 1522 [14].
TEXT = <any OCTET except CTLs,
but including LWS>
"
SinceBasic Auth is uuencoded there is no good reason to restrict it.
regards
Tim
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Tim Greenwood Open Market Inc
617 679 0320 greenwd@openmarket.com
Received on Friday, 13 September 1996 15:28:48 UTC