Hi Wong, You can have : in the password but not in the userID, see RFC2617:
userid = *<TEXT excluding ":"> password = *TEXT So by using an encoding hack, you are of course no longer including a : in the userID Hope that makes sense. Matt Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: "Wong Kok Meng-a17866" <kokmeng.w...@motorola.com> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:59:44 To: <users@httpd.apache.org> Subject: [us...@httpd] How to configure a username with colon? Hi, I am using Apache 2.0 webserver that comes with Fedora. I enabled HTTP digest authentication on my webserver by following the steps in http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth.html. It works well with username without colon. If I have a colon in the username, it doesn't work. I think the reason is because colons are used as delimiter in the user file. I tried to percent encode but it still doesn't work. Is there a way I can have ':' (colon) in my username? Please help. Thank you very much. Regards, Kok Meng --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
