- From: Yngve Nysaeter Pettersen <yngve@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:46:44 +0100
- To: Scott Lawrence <scott-http@skrb.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
- Cc: Adam Roach <adam@dynamicsoft.com>
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:09:08 -0500, Scott Lawrence <scott-http@skrb.org> wrote: > The passwd value SHOULD be encoded using UTF-8 [ref] for input to > the hash. The encoding of the passwd value was not specified by > [RFC 2616], so for backward compatibility, servers MAY also RFC 2616 or FRC 2617? > calculate the A1 value using any convention used prior to this > specification. I think this will resolve the situation about passwords in digest authentication. Should similar language be added about the digest username as well? Or should the RFC 2047 encoding be required for the username? -- Sincerely, Yngve N. Pettersen ******************************************************************** Senior Developer Email: yngve@opera.com Opera Software ASA http://www.opera.com/ Phone: +47 24 16 42 60 Fax: +47 24 16 40 01 ********************************************************************
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