- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:11:59 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: web API <public-webapi@w3.org>
* Julian Reschke wrote: >"The syntax for the user or password arguments depends on the scheme >being used. If the syntax for either is incorrect per the production >given in the relevant scheme user agents must throw a SYNTAX_ERR >exception. The user and password must be encoded using the encoding >specified by the scheme. If the scheme fails to specify an encoding they >must be encoded using UTF-8." > >I think this has been mentioned before: does this reflect what today's >implementations do for basic and digest? Could you be more specific? Firefox for example will mangle non-ascii user names and passwords in strange and harmful ways, so strictly the answer to your question is "no" but I don't see this as a problem. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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