On Wed, 25 May 2005, Scott Horsley wrote:
> scott abc#123
>
> would produce
>
> scott abc%23123
Correct. Documented in the Squid-2.5 release notes.
> This is obviously quite annoying as it restricts passwords to be plain
> alphanumeric
Rather the opposite actually. But your helper needs to know how to decode
the data sent by Squid. This encoding is plain URL encoding using %NN
where NN is the hex code of the "odd" character.
> A) This was normal behaviour
Yes.
> B) Is a fix for this?
Yes, make your helper support the format used by Squid-2.5.
> C) Am I doing something wrong?
> D) Do I need to adjust my helper to re-ascii my password in order to
> authenticate users?
Yes.
> E) Has anybody else come across this?
Yes.
I made this change in the helper format for Squid-2.5 it as there was a
lot of problems with non-ascii usernames or passwords. Most notably space
characters.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu May 26 2005 - 22:48:55 MDT
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