Martijn Pieters wrote:
>
> RFC 1945 says one paragraph before that that the header should be matched
> case-insensitively. That was what the Moz bug was all about.
Thanks for the clarification.
> > # Only do basic authentication
> > if lower(auth[:6])!='basic ':
> > return None
> > name,password=tuple(split(decodestring(strip(auth[6:])), ':',
> > 1))
> >
> >
> > The "strip" is in there just in case a client responds with
> >
> > "basic base64blah" instead of
> > "basic base64blah".
>
> The split already takes out the whitespace. No need to strip.
There's a base64.decodestring() between the strip and the split.
Leading and/or trailing spaces make base64 strings invalid.
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Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
Cat-Box limited
http://www.cat-box.net
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