An Encoding Parameter for HTTP Basic Authentication
draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-08
| Document | Type | Replaced Internet-Draft (httpauth WG) | |
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| Author | Julian Reschke | ||
| Last updated | 2013-06-10 (latest revision 2013-05-08) | ||
| Replaced by | RFC 7617, draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Intended RFC status | (None) | ||
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| Stream | WG state | Adopted by a WG | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | Replaced by draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update, draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc | |
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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.
Authors
Julian Reschke (julian.reschke@greenbytes.de)
(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)