[imp] IMP: Special characters in password "removed/changed" automatically

[Jan Schneider]

Passwords must only contain ascii characters, as long as the charset  
of the authentication method is undefined. This has nothing to do with  
Horde.

Zitat von Stefan König <montiburns at googlemail.com>:

> Correcting myself, the transmitted bytes 0xc4 and 0xe4 are OK. I got the
> wrong table.
> However, this changes nothing about the result of the IMAP server
> rejecting the login.
> If I login via telnet, everything works perfectly....
>
> thanks again
> regards
> Stefan
>
>
> Stefan König schrieb:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I have a slight problem with IMP (4.3.6) running on top of Horde 3 (3.3.6).
>> I use our IMAP server as an auth backend, which works like a charm.
>> Today I noticed, when I have a german special character
>> in the password, this character is not being forwarded to the
>> authentification backend correctly.
>> Example:
>> login: user at example.com
>> pass: 12tÄst34
>>
>> then tcpdump shows me, that IMP tries to authenticate against the IMAP
>> server with password "12t.st34" where the  wrong byte shows in tcpdump
>> as 0xc4 (decimal 196) where it should be 0x8f (dec. 142 in extended
>> ascii table).
>> The byte changes with the character, if I set "12täst34" as password,
>> the byte changes to 0xe4 (dec. 228).
>>
>> I wonder why and how this happens. I checked the language settings in
>> Apache (2.2.10), everything seems to be correct.
>> Could someone point me into the right direction?
>>
>> Thanks alot!
>> regards
>> Stefan
>>
>>


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Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/