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André,
On 1/21/2010 6:35 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> Basically, I would tend to say that if the server knows who the clients
> are and vice-versa, you should be free to use any encoding you want,
> with the limitation that what is exchanged on the wire conforms to HTTP
> (because there may be proxies on the way which are not so tolerant).
+1
> What the client is sending is already (in a way) conformant to HTTP,
> because it is base64 encoded and so, on the surface, it does not contain
> non-ascii characters.
+1
> But the problem is that the standard Tomcat code which decodes the Basic
> Authorization header does not work in the way you want, for these
> illegal headers.
> And this code should preferably not be changed in a way which breaks the
> conformance with standard HTTP.
> Because if you do that, then your Tomcat becomes useless for anything
> else than your special client.
+1
Another possibility would be to use something like SecurityFilter, which
allows you to (more easily) write your own authenticator and realm
implementations, and you could write a BasicAuthenticator that reads
these specially-formatted credentials.
I checked the sf source, and it looks like we might have a bug:
private String decodeBasicAuthorizationString(String authorization) {
if (authorization == null ||
!authorization.toLowerCase().startsWith("basic ")) {
return null;
} else {
authorization = authorization.substring(6).trim();
// Decode and parse the authorization credentials
return new String(Base64.decodeBase64(authorization.getBytes()));
}
}
That "authorization.getBytes()" is just asking for trouble, because it
uses the platform default encoding to convert characters to bytes. It
should be using US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, or something like that.
It also calls the String constructor with a byte array without
specifying the encoding, therefore using the platform default.
Finally, this method is private, which means it cannot be overridden by
a subclass, which would be a nice feature. Maybe I'll fix all that. :)
> Or, you drop the container-managed security, and you use something like
> the SecurityFilter (http://securityfilter.sourceforge.net/), but read
> the homepage carefully first.
Note that the warning about BASIC authentication is waaay outdated: sf
definitely does support BASIC auth.
- -chris
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