Re: utf-8 encoded htaccess?

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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:49:04 +0200, Vincent Bray <noodlet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/09/2007, Martin Strand <do.not.eat.yellow.snow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm using non-ascii characters for AuthName but they show up as garbage in
firefox.
Changing the encoding for .htaccess from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 solves the
problem but I'd like to support utf-8.

It takes a bit of backtracing through all the RFCs to find an
authoritative answer to this.

RFC2616#14.47: References RFC2617 (via a footnote reference)
RFC2617#1.2: realm-value = quoted-string

.. so back to 2616 for a definition of quoted-string ..

RFC2616#2.2

quoted-string  = ( <"> *(qdtext | quoted-pair ) <"> )
qdtext         = <any TEXT except <">>

.. and ..

Words
   of *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than ISO-
   8859-1 [22] only when encoded according to the rules of RFC 2047
   [14].

Gah, another RFC: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html

I'm not familliar with that one, and it doesn't look pretty, but I
hope this hopes to get you closer to an answer.

Thanks, but unfortunately MIME encoding the realm name doesn't help:

AuthName =?utf-8?B?5pel5pys6aaZ5aCC?=

This must be a UA problem - none of IE/FF/Opera decodes the name, they must've forgotten to read rfc2617. :) I know most UAs understand MIME encoding in UTF-8 filenames, which is a quoted-string too:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?utf-8?B?5pel5pys6aaZ5aCC?="

Martin

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