Re: svn fails to handle certificates with non-ascii characters

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:03:56PM +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> When svn is presented a certificate that contains non ASCII characters, it
> fails to present a proper user override.

Yes, really it's a neon issue, neon completely ignores the ASN.1 types
of the attributes in the cert DN, so will pass back UCS-4 or ASCII or
whatever the cert uses. neon should define ne_ssl_readable_dname() to
return only UTF-8 strings, and convert, reject, or strip input
appropriately.

Note that PKIX now mandates use of UTF-8 in newly created certs from
2004 onwards... and that technically your cert is badly encoded (like
many others), since it puts an ISO-8859-1 string in a T61String object.

Bottom line: if you stick to ASCII or UTF-8 in your cert DNs, it will
happen to work correctly; otherwise, all bets are off.

Regards,

joe

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Received on Tue Feb 10 15:39:32 2004