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Re: [xml-dev] RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication

On 2012-01-31 00:43, David Lee wrote:
>
> --- David
> A simple insertion of the text "UTF8
>   encoded prior to base64" would have nailed it.
>
> ------ Julian
> If you actually had read the spec, you would know why that doesn't work.
>
> Unless you mean: "back in 1997" (RFC 2068).
> ---------
> Yes I "actually" read the spec but no I dont know why that wouldn't work.
> Maybe you could enlighten me ?

Many UAs use ISO-8859-1, and many servers expect that.

 > ...

Best regards, Julian


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