Re: Strange auth bug
| From: | Ben Laurie | Date: | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:06:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Strange auth bug | ||
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Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>
> I am trying to track down a weird bug here. Just wondering if anybody has
> run across something similar.
>
> When I authenticate on a page using a user id of: tätär
> and a password of: blah
>
> IE sends an Authorization header which looks like this:
>
> Basic dOR05HI6YmxhaA==
>
> while Netscape sends:
>
> Basic dOR0
>
> What gives? Unless I missed something, this looks like a pretty basic
> browser bug.
I'll wager Netscape are using a signed char in their base 64 encoder...
Cheers,
Ben.
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