[ruby-core:57251] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5046][Closed] Bug with xmlrpc::client, basic auth and long authentication strings

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2011/7/25 Hiroshi Nakamura <[e-mail]>

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> Issue #5046 has been updated by Hiroshi Nakamura.
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> Status changed from Assigned to Closed
> Target version changed from 1.9.x to 1.9.3
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> Fixed trunk at r32666 and ruby_1_9_3 at r32668. Thanks!
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> Bug #5046: Bug with xmlrpc::client, basic auth and long authentication
> strings
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5046
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> Author: Herwin Weststrate
> Status: Closed
> Priority: Low
> Assignee: Hiroshi Nakamura
> Category: lib
> Target version: 1.9.3
> ruby -v: 1.9.2-p290 (and earlier releases)
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> 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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