This may be a basic question, but is it possible to have colon (“:”) in username when there is HTTP or HTTPS basic authentication ? If not, is there a way we can escape colon ?
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This may be a basic question, but is it possible to have colon (“:”) in username when there is HTTP or HTTPS basic authentication ? If not, is there a way we can escape colon ?
Looking at RFC – https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2617#section-2 and around the web, there doesn’t seem to be escaping technique for colon in username. The only place extra you can have it is in password field.
If it is an option, you maybe can replace : with @ in auth level and ask users to do this.