On 2012-01-29 20:53, David Lee wrote:
> More study and I lucked on a spec
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-00.html
->
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-latest.html>
> Seems a known and open problem (how long has this been in the wild ? How
> did it ever work ?)
It "worked" as long everybody was happy with ISO-8859-1.
> So follow-on question ...
>
> Does anyone know if this spec or anything like it has been adopted ?
No, it hasn't been adopted, but I'm trying to get it to IETF Last Call.
> Or do we just all assume the world is "USASCII" as usual ?
I don't think that's sufficient :-)
Best regards, Julian
