[NNTP] Spaces in usernames and passwords
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Thu Sep 2 12:07:48 PDT 2004
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
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>>I'm fine with this as well. I'll also propose this as a possible
>>simpler and less-wordy alternative:
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>>username = 1*(user-pass-char)
>>password = 1*(user-pass-char)
>>user-pass-char = P-CHAR
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>>Note: A server implementation MAY parse AUTHINFO USER and AUTHINFO PASS
>>specially as to allow white space to be used within the username or
>>password. Such implementations typically treat everything between the
>>first whitespace character following "USER"/"PASS" and EOL as the
>>username/password. In this case, "user-pass-char" is extended as such:
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>>user-pass-char =/ SP / TAB
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> This also works for me. I think we still want the 2.1.2 change.
Yes, those changes are already in the source.
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