On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Jean Jacques Drouin wrote:

> The trace analysis from ethereal shows that - with cURL - only the 127 first
> characters of the password are base64 encoded and sent to the server. My
> password is greater than 127 characters!
>
> I've tried with various lengths of <user>, <filename>.. to see if the limit
> was for the password itself or for the global url length: cURL always takes
> 127 chars of the sole password.
>
> I've not seen something related to such limit in the doc.

Yes indeed, the current code seems to restrict the length to 127 bytes. It is
actually a plain mistake since it keeps a buffer to store up to 255 bytes...

You up to fix it and send us a patch?

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