Unicode for HTTP Header

[ksuralta]

Hi everyone,

Good day!

This isn't actually a PHP question.
I just want to ask if it's possible to use double byte character
strings as the basic realm in the HTTP header.

example.
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="<dbcs>"

I'm getting garbage characters displayed.
If this is possible, how do I do it?

Thanks,
Kenneth

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22=C1lvaro_G=2E_Vicario=22?=]

ks******@gmail.com escribió:

I just want to ask if it's possible to use double byte character
strings as the basic realm in the HTTP header.

example.
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="<dbcs>"

If HTTP headers are allowed contain values in any charset I presume
you'd need to encode them properly following the rules in rfc2047, just
as you do with e-mail MIME headers. PHP has lots of built-in functions
to _decode_ but I'm not sure about which one should be used to encode.
Maybe mb_encode_mimeheader()?

Another issue is whether browsers will be able to decode it. This test
does not work at all in Opera, Firefox or IE 7:

<?php
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="=?US-ASCII?Q?foo?="');
?>

There's a discussion about the subject in Mozilla's bug tracker:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41489
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[Guillaume]

ks******@gmail.com a écrit :

This isn't actually a PHP question.

I wonder, why asking here then ? I doubt this could be the best place to
get an accurate reply, though you might get it. I'd rather post in some
browser/webmaster/html expert NG.

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[ksuralta]

�lvaro.,

I've tried your suggestion, and, yeah, the browsers are not decoding
it.

Anyway, your reply was very informative.

Thanks,
Kenneth
�lvaro G. Vicario wrote:

ks******@gmail.com escribi�:

I just want to ask if it's possible to use double byte character
strings as the basic realm in the HTTP header.

example.
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="<dbcs>"

If HTTP headers are allowed contain values in any charset I presume
you'd need to encode them properly following the rules in rfc2047, just
as you do with e-mail MIME headers. PHP has lots of built-in functions
to _decode_ but I'm not sure about which one should be used to encode.
Maybe mb_encode_mimeheader()?

Another issue is whether browsers will be able to decode it. This test
does not work at all in Opera, Firefox or IE 7:

<?php
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="=?US-ASCII?Q?foo?="');
?>

There's a discussion about the subject in Mozilla's bug tracker:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41489
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[ksuralta]

Sorry for that. I was quite in a hurry to fix this problem.

On May 22, 6:27 pm, Guillaume <[e-mail]>
wrote:

[e-mail] a écrit :This isn't actually a PHP question.

I wonder, why asking here then ? I doubt this could be the best place to
get an accurate reply, though you might get it. I'd rather post in some
browser/webmaster/html expert NG.

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[Jerry Stuckle]

ks******@gmail.com wrote:

Sorry for that. I was quite in a hurry to fix this problem.

On May 22, 6:27 pm, Guillaume <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>[e-mail] a écrit :This isn't actually a PHP question.

I wonder, why asking here then ? I doubt this could be the best place to
get an accurate reply, though you might get it. I'd rather post in some
browser/webmaster/html expert NG.

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Guillaume

All the more reason to ask in an appropriate newsgroup. You'll get a
good answer faster.

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[Satya]

On May 22, 5:43*pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:

Sorry for that. *I was quite in a hurry to fix this problem.

On May 22, 6:27 pm, Guillaume <[e-mail]>
wrote:

[e-mail] a écrit :This isn't actually a PHP question.

I wonder, why asking here then ? I doubt this could be the best place to
get an accurate reply, though you might get it. I'd rather post in some
browser/webmaster/html expert NG.

--
Guillaume

All the more reason to ask in an appropriate newsgroup. *You'll get a
good answer faster.

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Everywhere Jerry Stuckle. I want to know about him. i wrote an email,
instead two emails. for one i got this is not related to business and
for another i did not received anything.
Do you have any info about him. Please write me.

Thanks

[Satya]

On May 22, 5:43*pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:

Sorry for that. *I was quite in a hurry to fix this problem.

On May 22, 6:27 pm, Guillaume <[e-mail]>
wrote:

[e-mail] a écrit :This isn't actually a PHP question.

I wonder, why asking here then ? I doubt this could be the best place to
get an accurate reply, though you might get it. I'd rather post in some
browser/webmaster/html expert NG.

--
Guillaume

All the more reason to ask in an appropriate newsgroup. *You'll get a
good answer faster.

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Everywhere with correct and informative answers. I am very impressed
with him.
I am not talking about the answers given here. ;)
The problem was already solved.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Satya wrote:

On May 22, 5:43 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

>[e-mail] wrote:

>>Sorry for that. I was quite in a hurry to fix this problem.
On May 22, 6:27 pm, Guillaume <[e-mail]>
wrote:
[e-mail] a écrit :This isn't actually a PHP question.
I wonder, why asking here then ? I doubt this could be the best place to
get an accurate reply, though you might get it. I'd rather post in some
browser/webmaster/html expert NG.
--
Guillaume

All the more reason to ask in an appropriate newsgroup. You'll get a
good answer faster.

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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
[e-mail]
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Everywhere Jerry Stuckle. I want to know about him. i wrote an email,
instead two emails. for one i got this is not related to business and
for another i did not received anything.
Do you have any info about him. Please write me.

Thanks

I show no email from your gmail address, going back three months.

Additionally, I help in the newsgroups in my free time. But answering
private email started to take too much of my billable time, so I had to
go that way.

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