Re: Basic Authentication and encoding of non-ASCII characters in credentials from Julian Reschke on 2008-05-28 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2008)

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:03:42 +0200
To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <483D1FEE.7040908@gmx.de>

Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we recently discussed this over at the W3C webapi discussion list, and 
> it turns out that, at least for Firefox, the encoding that is being used 
> depends on whether the browser itself does the authentication (ISO8859-1 
> plus bugs for non-ISO characters), or whether it's XMLHTTPRequest (UTF-8).
> ...

<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436033>

BR, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:04:31 UTC