[Zope-dev] Incorrect Padding?

[Martijn Pieters]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:36:26PM +0200, Martijn Pieters wrote:
> > I also checked, and this version of the patch *should* work:
> > 
> >         # Only do basic authentication
> >         if lower(auth[:6])!='basic ':
> >             return None
> >         name,password=tuple(split(decodestring(strip(auth[6:])), ':',
> > 1))
> > 
> > 
> > The "strip" is in there just in case a client responds with
> > 
> > "basic  base64blah" instead of
> > "basic base64blah".

Oops. You took out the strip. But IIRC, base64 does a strip as well.

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