From: Herwin Weststrate <herwin@...>
Date: 2011-07-18T22:25:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38164] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5046][Open] Bug with xmlrpc::client, basic auth and long authentication strings


Issue #5046 has been reported by Herwin Weststrate.

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Bug #5046: Bug with xmlrpc::client, basic auth and long authentication strings
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5046

Author: Herwin Weststrate
Status: Open
Priority: Low
Assignee: 
Category: lib
Target version: 1.9.x
ruby -v: 1.9.2-p290 (and earlier releases)


XMLRPC::Client has support for basic auth. This tries to encode the
combination of the username and password with the base64 algorithm using
Array.pack. If however your username and password exceed a certain
length the truncate algorithm of Array.pack kicks in and adds a newline
character in the result, which creates HTTP headers that are invalid.



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