HTTP Authentication encoding test results

Hi,

  On the German Apache HTTPD users mailing list someone was having
difficulties using non-ascii characters in HTTP Basic Authentication
and posted these test results,

  TortoiseSVN
  Password: "E€D$P§äöü123"
  Hex: "45,E2,82,AC,44,24,50,C2,A7,C3,A4,C3,B6,C3,BC,31,32,33"
  
  Chrome
  Password: "E�D$P§äöü123"
  Hex: "45,C3,A2,C2,82,C2,AC,44,24,50,C3,82,C2,A7,C3,83,C2,A4,C3,83,C2,B6,C3,83,C2,BC,31,32,33"
  
  Internet Explorer
  Password: "E?D$P§äöü123"
  Hex: "45,C2,80,44,24,50,C2,A7,C3,A4,C3,B6,C3,BC,31,32,33"
  
  Firefox
  Password: "E¬D$P§äöü123"
  Hex: "45,C2,AC,44,24,50,C2,A7,C3,A4,C3,B6,C3,BC,31,32,33"

I analysed these samples and TortoiseSVN does just plain UTF-8, Chrome
does double-UTF-8, and IE and Firefox first apply Windows-1252 and then
UTF-8 on the result. I do recall Firefox doing something worse but could
not find the bug report when I briefly looked for it...
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Received on Friday, 14 February 2014 15:18:45 UTC