RE: [squid-users] LDAP Authentication with Umlauts

On tor, 2008-07-03 at 12:39 +0200, enrico.hoyme_at_scherer-trier.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also had problems with umlauts. We use our Lotus Domino Server as LDAP
> server and since an update from version 6.5 to 8, our users are unable to
> authenticate via IE or Firefox if their password contains umlauts.
> We are running squid on BSD and Linux and on both system you are able to
> authenticate using squid_ldap_auth on command line.
> I figured out that if you use the command line (set to utf-8) the utf-8
> code will be send and if you try to use IE or Firefox the ASCII code will
> be send.
> So I wrote a small work around by adding a new function
> rfc1738_unescape_with_utf to squid_ldap_auth.c. The base content is the
> original function rfc1738_unescape, but I added a switch statement to
> change the character representation from ascii to utf-8 (see code for
> german special chars below).

Can you try the attached patch instead? It tries to address the problem
in a generic manner.

Regards
Henrik