A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : An Encoding Parameter for HTTP Basic Authentication Author(s) : Julian F. Reschke Filename : draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.txt Pages : 9 Date : 2012-01-29 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. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-04.txt _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
