Re: Tortoise SVN unable to authenticate password

Without reading the context: Philip Martin posted just this week with
a detailed explanation of when non-ASCII passwords would (and wouldn't)
work over http.

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:12:27 -0400:
> 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.
Received on 2012-04-26 17:37:31 CEST