Basic Authentication and special characters

[Randy Shoup]

I am not sure whether this is proper forum for this question, but ...

I am trying to use Cactus 1.4.1 and JBoss 3.0.4, with Basic Authentication. In the back, JBoss authenticates the login to an LDAP server where user names are like email addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

When I try to authenticate with such a user name, Cactus complains that '@' is a special character (stack trace below).

According to the Cactus code, and the HTTP 1.0 spec, this is perfectly correct. I tried escaping the '@' in various ways -- '%40' and '@' -- but neither worked.

My question is: How do other people use Basic Authentication and so-called "special" characters like the extremely common '@'? Am I just out of luck? Is there a way to escape the '@' so that I can in fact authenticate?

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stack trace:
[junit] Testcase: testBasicAuthentication took 0.078 sec
[junit] Caused an ERROR
[junit] Given theName contains illegal characters.
[junit] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Given theName contains illegal characters.
[junit] at org.apache.cactus.client.authentication.BasicAuthentication.validateName(BasicAuthentication.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj(1k)
:153)
[junit] at org.apache.cactus.client.authentication.AbstractAuthentication.dispatch6_setName(AbstractAuthentication.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAs
pect.aj(1k):108)
[junit] at org.apache.cactus.client.authentication.AbstractAuthentication.around6_setName(AbstractAuthentication.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspe
ct.aj(1k):1156)
[junit] at org.apache.cactus.client.authentication.AbstractAuthentication.setName(AbstractAuthentication.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj(1k
):106)
[junit] at org.apache.cactus.client.authentication.AbstractAuthentication.<init>(AbstractAuthentication.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj(1k)
:97)
[junit] at org.apache.cactus.client.authentication.BasicAuthentication.<init>(BasicAuthentication.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj(1k):113)

Thanks,
-- Randy
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Randy Shoup
Tumbleweed Communications Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]




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