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

[Jan Schneider]

You can't. With IMP 4 it's out of our control how the (PHP) IMAP  
library authenticates.

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

> I tried to debug the problem a little more, it seems if I enter the
> credentials via telnet directly into the IMAP server,
> the german umlauts are broken into two byte (my console uses UTF-8) and
> when logging in via IMP, it is transmitted in one byte using ISO-8859-1/15
>
> So the big question is now, how can I make IMP to sending the
> credentials in UTF-8?
>
> Thanks again
> Stefan
>
> Jan Schneider schrieb:
>> 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
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