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Re: [http-auth] Pete Resnick's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-06: (with COMMENT)

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Fri, 20 February 2015 14:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Pete Resnick's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-06: (with COMMENT)
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> I changed the text to:
>
>>    Furthermore, a user-id containing a colon character is invalid, as
>>    the first colon in a user-pass string separates user-id and password
>>    from one another; text after the first colon is part of the password.
>>    User-ids containing colons cannot be encoded in user-pass strings.
>>
>>    Note that many user agents produce user-pass strings without checking
>>    that user-ids supplied by users do not contain colons; recipients
>>    will then treat part of the username input as part of the password.
>
>
> in <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpauth/trac/changeset/128>.
>
> Pete, Barry, does this sound good to you?

That looks lovely to me.

Barry

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