Re: [SQU] Limitations

Ow. I'm going to go and get around 24 hours sleep now before I say anything else.

Devin: re the conversation we had - oops!

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@hem.passagen.se>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [SQU] Limitations

> Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > When will I learn :-/
> >
> > rfc 2617 specifies TEXT as the username & password, I just had a nagging suspicion so I looked up the BNF definition for TEXT,
which
> > excludes LWS.. Sorry Henrik for wasting time...
>
> Hmm.. perhaps you should read the definitions again...
>
> RFC2617:
>
> user-pass = userid ":" password
> userid = *<TEXT excluding ":">
> password = *TEXT
>
> RFC2616:
>
> TEXT = <any OCTET except CTLs,
> but including LWS>
>
> LWS = [CRLF] 1*( SP | HT )
>
> What can be argued is if any applications will get the witespace
> definition correly in this context.. (there is no semantic difference
> between any of the LWS combinations. All read as a single SP, but I
> doubt any Basic HTTP password implementations will read SP and HT as the
> same thing)
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
>
>

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