On 04/10/2017 09:33 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
Thanks for posting the patched HTML. In my opinion, all looks good except that:- I will add an extra String (a CSV) to AuthenticationSASL message for channel binding names, so that message format can remain without changes when channel binding is implemented. It can be empty.
Note that SCRAM-SHA-256 with channel binding has a different SASL mechanism name, SRAM-SHA-256-PLUS. No need for a separate flag or string for channel binding. When support for channel binding is added to the server, it will advertise two SASL mechanisms in the AuthenticationSASL message, SCRAM-SHA-256 and SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS. (Or just SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS, if channel-binding is required).
- If the username used is the one sent in the startup message, rather than leaving it empty in the client-first-message, I would force it to be the same as the used in the startuo message.
The problem with that is that the SCRAM spec dictates that the username must be encoded in UTF-8, but PostgreSQL supports non-UTF-8 usernames.
Or did you mean that, if the username is sent, it must match the one in the startup packet, but an empty string would always be allowed? That would be reasonable.
Otherwise we may confuse some client implementations which would probably consider that as an error; for one, my implementation would currently throw an error if username is empty, and I think that's correct.
I'm not sure I follow. The username is sent from client to server, and currently, the server will ignore it. If you're writing a client library, it can send whatever it wants. (Although again I would recommend an empty string, to avoid confusion. Sending the same username as in the startup packet, as long as it's in UTF-8, seems reasonable too.)
Thanks for reviewing this! I'll start hacking on code changes to go with these docs.
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