[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-cvslog] Fix http authentication.

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Fri Feb 28 13:13:03 CET 2014


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 07:59:36AM +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 02:49:39AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 08:30:00PM +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 08:25:52PM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > > > ffmpeg | branch: master | Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> | Wed Feb 26 09:51:06 2014 +0100| [3ba056017f978ba69ea933c593f0e616b3632261] | committer: Carl Eugen Hoyos
> > > > 
> > > > Fix http authentication.
> > > > 
> > > > Add parenthesis around "MD5" in the request string as required by
> > > > RFC 2069.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Sorry to raise that now but RFC 2069 is obsoleted by RFC 2617:
> > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617
> > > 
> > > And the BNF in that RFC says:
> > >       algorithm         = "algorithm" "=" ( "MD5" | "MD5-sess" |
> > >                            token )
> > > 
> > > The quotes should not be present AFAICT.
> > 
> > seems so, thats my mistake, feel free to revert
> > (or leave it if that turns out to work with more servers)
> > 
> 
> Well, it seems the other implementations send & accept with quotes
> generally. But this is not matching the RFC, even the first version
> mentioned:
> 
>   algorithm           = "algorithm" "=" ( "MD5" | token )
> 
> So the commit message is actually wrong.
> 
> I'd "fix" it by adding a comment in the code saying that we are violating
> the RFC because all others seem to do that.

fine with me


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