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Title : An Encoding Parameter for HTTP Basic Authentication
Author(s) : J. Reschke
Filename : draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-00.txt
Pages : 6
Date : 2010-08-11
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 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.
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