[Mono-bugs] [Bug 74745][Nor] New - http basic credentials are being encoded using utf-8 char set

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Changed by mlasky@novell.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74745

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+Bug#: 74745
+Product: Mono: Class Libraries
+Version: 1.1
+OS: SLES 9
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: 
+Priority: Normal
+Component: Sys.Web
+AssignedTo: mono-bugs@ximian.com                            
+ReportedBy: mlasky@novell.com               
+QAContact: mono-bugs@ximian.com
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Cc: jpallen@novell.com,rlyon@novell.com
+Summary: http basic credentials are being encoded using utf-8 char set
+
+Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what 
+you are doing.
+Description of Problem:
+The http basic credentials that are sent by a web client are encoded 
+using the utf-8 character set before they are uuencoded and set in the 
+authorization header.
+
+According the the RFCs for the HTTP protocol and HTTP authentication: 
+
+(RFC 2617 Section 2)
+To receive authorization, the client sends the userid and password,
+   separated by a single colon (":") character, within a base64 [7]
+   encoded string in the credentials.
+
+      basic-credentials = base64-user-pass
+      base64-user-pass  = <base64 [4] encoding of user-pass,
+
+                       except not limited to 76 char/line>
+      user-pass   = userid ":" password
+      userid      = *<TEXT excluding ":">
+      password    = *TEXT
+
+
+(RFC 2616 Section 2.2)
+
+The TEXT rule is only used for descriptive field contents and values
+   that are not intended to be interpreted by the message parser. Words
+   of *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than ISO-
+   8859-1 [22] only when encoded according to the rules of RFC 2047
+   [14].
+
+
+So according to how I understand this the default character set for the 
+unicode to byte encoding should be ISO-8859-1.
+
+Steps to reproduce the problem:
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+Actual Results:
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+Expected Results:
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+How often does this happen? 
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+Additional Information: