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HTTP Basic Authentication Broken with Long Credentials

#2585

When using long credentials with HTTP Basic authentication, the resultant Base64 encoded string will have a newlines. This causes the current authorization routine to choke due to the use of #split on the auth string.

Here's a patch with test to fix the issue.

Reported by Tyler Hunt · April 30th, 2009 @ 06:47 PM

State: duplicate
Milestone: 2.x
Assigned to: nobody
Importance: none