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MrBackend
MrBackend

Reputation: 667

Basic Access Authentication: Encoding of ':' and non-ASCII code points

For the base64-user-pass value in the Authorization header, is there a standard/de facto way to base64-encode usernames and passwords which contain code points which don't fit into an OCTET, or usernames which contain a colon (which is explicitly prohibited by RFC 2617)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 78

Answers (1)

Julian Reschke
Julian Reschke

Reputation: 42045

1) Yes, but only proposed and not implemented (AFAIK): https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7617.html#charset

2) No.

Upvotes: 1

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