: in HTTP Basic Auth userid

From: Travis Vachon <travis@osafoundation.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:26:49 -0700
To: www-talk@w3.org
Message-Id: <8299E1B0-71DB-4307-8F1B-304EF5C22573@osafoundation.org>

Hi folks

According to RFC 2617 : is not allowed in the userid portion of the  
pre-base64-encoded authentication token. I was not able to find any  
standard mechanism for escaping : in this string. Does such a  
mechanism exist?

Thanks very much,

Travis Vachon

Received on Wednesday, 31 October 2007 00:41:53 UTC