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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(s) : Julian F. Reschke
Filename : draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc-00.txt
Pages : 10
Date : 2013-05-16
Abstract:
The "Basic" authentication scheme defined in RFC 2617 does not
properly define how to treat non-ASCII characters. This has lead 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 set, and even less interoperability for any
characters beyond that.
This document defines a backwards-compatible extension to "Basic",
specifying the server's character encoding expectation, using a new
authentication scheme parameter.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc-00
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