[MPlayer-dev-eng] Little patch

Attila Kinali kinali at gmx.net
Wed Dec 10 13:32:58 CET 2003


On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:36:21 +0100
Mariusz Jedrzejewski <mj at polcard.com.pl> wrote:

> Hi.
> There is a stupid as I've never seen before proxy server - Nokia Checkpoint.
> This thing is not able to process properly Proxy-Authorization string when
> it ends with equal sign ('='). Even when it is normal for base 64
> encoding...
> 
> Tcpflow shows that mplayer running with http_proxy://user:pass@proxy:port
> can send "Proxy-Authorization: Basic WeirdBase64String=".
> My little patch can avoid that problem:

[...]

> After patch authorization will pass.
> 
> Anyway, mplayer is first program that send '=' signs in Proxy-Auth string.
> (Yes, I know it's not bad...)

What does the standard say ?

			Attila Kinali

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