RE: Tortoise SVN unable to authenticate password

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nkadel_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: 26 April 2012 13:12
> To: Cooke, Mark
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org; Stephen Flowers
> Subject: Re: Tortoise SVN unable to authenticate password
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Cooke, Mark
> <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Glad to have been useful (and to know it is not just me)!
>
> Unfortunately I have not managed to get to the bottom
> of how or why subversion <-> httpd is mangling the password
> and what (if anything) subversion (or neon or serf?) could
> change to fix this...
>
> ~ mark c
>
>
> As I remember, not much. Passing non-ASCII characters through
> any kind of password handling tool is a problem, for a lot of reasons.
>
...so what about users using non-latin character sets? Surely not all subversion users are english?

We are using plain-text `Basic` authentication (over https!) so subversion should surely be able to send the characters entered by the user? The browsers manage it OK (IE6/IE8 and Opera 9+ (shush!) for me), just TortoiseSVN and the packaged command line subversion version does this.

Hmm, I'll try a different build to see if that makes a difference (when I get a chance to fiddle with the server again).

~ mark c
Received on 2012-04-26 14:27:14 CEST