On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, David Shaw wrote:

> I've seen the various responses to this mail, but I am a bit confused. It
> seems that at least for basic auth, it would indeed be a violation of the
> protocol to have a userid with a colon in it.

Oh, right. I was stupidly just thinking about how to enter the user name, not
how it would be used in the protocols...!

But I figure the forbidding colon is only really forbidden for Basic as the
other authentication methods have other means of handling the name and
password.

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