Re: Border case: Basic authentication with a comma in the auth realm fails

[email protected] (Olaf Alders) Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:36:36 -0500
Newsgroups perl.libwww
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Harald,


> On Jan 12, 2018, at 6:54 PM, Harald J=C3=B6rg <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>=20
> Hello libwww,
>=20
> I've encountered a situation where browsers "just work" but
> LWP::UserAgent fails.
>=20
> This is a border case which apparently went unnoticed for decades, and
> for my own problem I've found a ridiculously easy workaround.  So I'm
> not sure whether it is a good idea or worth the effort to change
> things.  I volunteer to create a test case but am hesitating with a
> fix because this might break things in the real world.


Thanks very much for this detailed explanation of what you've been =
seeing.  I don't really know this part of the code well enough to be =
able to comment on this right now, but there was a recent pull request =
which deals with authentication.  Does =
https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl/pull/255/files fix anything =
for you?

If it does or it doesn't, it might be worth commenting on the existing =
pull request.

Best,

Olaf