[http-auth] I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc-02.txt

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
 This draft is a work item of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Authentication Working Group of the IETF.

        Title           : An Encoding Parameter for HTTP Basic Authentication
        Author          : Julian F. Reschke
	Filename        : draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc-02.txt
	Pages           : 10
	Date            : 2014-02-04

Abstract:
   The "Basic" authentication scheme defined in RFC 2617 does not
   properly define how to treat non-ASCII characters.  This has led 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 the non-ASCII characters in the
   ISO-8859-1 character repertoire, and even less interoperability for
   any characters beyond that.

   This document defines a backwards-compatible extension to "Basic",
   specifying the server's character encoding scheme expectation, using
   a new authentication scheme parameter.


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