On 2002-Apr-04 at 02:24:41 -0800, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > I have put together a patch for supporting "Basic" HTTP Proxy > Authentication. The patch changes the interpretatio of the RSYNC_PROXY > environment variable so that the syntax > > user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port > > may be used instead of just > > proxy.foo:port > > (the old syntax is of course still supported).
There is a problem with the way this syntax is being handled by the patch. It's because of the way it detects the "@" that separates user:pass and host:port. It fails because the username and/or password could have[0] an "@" in them. This is basically a problem if some user whould like to use (e.g.) radius realms[2], in order that the username becomes something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The patch has only been tested lightly, but it should(TM) > work. Yeah. Actually the guys from Gentoo are including this patch in the rsync 2.5.6 package. (Note: Please CC to me, as I'm not subscribed to the list) [0] RFC 2617 (HTTP Autentication) defines the userid field as TEXT[1] excluding ":". [1] RFC 2616 (HTTP) defines TEXT as any OCTECT (any 8-bit sequence of data) except CLTs, but including LWS. [2] RFC 2138 (Radius) defines a field as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Alvaro Figueroa -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
