Re: [squid-users] URLs with backslash character using Firefox breaks Digest-Auth

On 27/09/11 06:19, Jan Sievers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that trying to access a resource using URLs with backslash
> character ('\') using Firefox 6.0.2 breaks the HTTP-Digest
> authentication in Squid 3.1.15.
>
> Accessing the same resource using explicitly URL-escapes in the address
> bar (%5C) works.
>
> Accessing the same resource with Opera works, since it escapes every
> ('\') character itself.
>
> I guess it's more a Firefox bug, if it's not a content provider bug :-)
> ignoring RFCs. But I am wondering if I can do something about it in Squid?
>
> Or if Squid could respect different URL handling of different clients
> and build the digest hash the same way the browser does, meaning not to
> manipulate the uri provided in the Proxy-Authorization header again;
> here not to remove the backslash character?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jan
>

This sounds a lot like http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3077

Amos

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