Re: [http-auth] I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc-03.txt

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 04 March 2014 10:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc-03.txt
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On 2014-03-04 11:06, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
>
> 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-03.txt
> 	Pages           : 11
> 	Date            : 2014-03-04
> ...

This updates the Basic encoding extension spec (*) to state that we want 
NFC:

    The only allowed value is "UTF-8", to be matched case-insensitively
    (see [RFC2978], Section 2.3).  It indicates that the server expects
    user name and password to be converted to Unicode Normalization Form
    C ("NFC", see Section 3 of [RFC5198]) and to be encoded into octets
    using the UTF-8 character encoding scheme ([RFC3629]).

See also: 
<http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc-03>

We also discussed further normalization during the WG meeting, and my 
understanding is that the rough consensus in the room was not to attempt 
this for now.

Best regards, Julian

(*) Yes, still to be integrated into the Basic auth spec replacement.