- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:55:40 +0200
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <4C62B9EC.6050001@gmx.de>
FYI: a *very* modest proposal to fix the I18N issue in Basic Authentication (just that, nothing else). Best regards, Julian -------- Original Message -------- Subject: I-D Action:draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-00.txt Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Reply-To: internet-drafts@ietf.org To: i-d-announce@ietf.org A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : An Encoding Parameter for HTTP Basic Authentication Author(s) : J. Reschke Filename : draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-00.txt Pages : 6 Date : 2010-08-11 The "Basic" authentication scheme defined in RFC 2617 does not properly define how to treat non-ASCII characters. This has lead to a situation where user agent implementations disagree, and servers make different assumptions based on the locales they are running in. There is little interoperability for characters in the ISO-8859-1 character set, and even less interoperability for any characters beyond that. This document defines a backwards-compatible extension to "Basic", specifying the server's character encoding expectation, using a new authentication scheme parameter. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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