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Re: International Characters in NTLM Usernames

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:23:41 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> This document talks about a "negotiated encoding", "either UNICODE or OEM".

It also seems to be possible to set both bits, but libcurl only sets OEM.

> Perhaps libcurl negotiates a different encoding than other browsers. Did
> you try sending the username in UTF-8 instead?

That might work, or else you are gonna have to put some work into this to make
libcurl support it properly. It might be slightly more than just a quick fix.

(And for info there's a local copy of this doc here:
http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/ntlm.html - also available on the web mirrors)

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Received on 2005-03-03