[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH 1/7] Unescape login/password before base64 encode

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 08:10:00PM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:05:51PM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > I already sent it in a previous mail: it allows login/password to be
> > unescaped before base64 encode so auth with special characters now
> > works.
> 
> Still no news about this first patch; it should not require a lot of
> skills to review this stuff, even if it's 8 patches. Can anyone do it, or
> at least start with this one please? Those bugs are really annoying and
> easy to fix…

It's not at all easy to figure out if they actually fix more or break more...
This first patch for example I don't think anyone who has a %-sign in the
password will like.
Does e.g. Firefox really try to unescape the password?