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Re: Debugging a user authentication

Michael Ströder writes:
>Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>Michael Ströder writes:
>>>Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>> Yupp. And this lead to interop problems.
>> 
>> Well, yes.  In the sense that "LDAP auth won't work at our site" is
>> no interop problem while "it works when clients do it <this way>" is.
> 
> My original posting back then was triggered by Netscape Communicator 4.x 
> sending the password as ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) while using UTF-8 for 
> everything else (even with LDAPv2). Well, that's a long time ago but I 
> can imagine that there are LDAP clients out there which still do it like 
> this and (almost correctly) claim to be LDAPv3 compliant.

Yes.  It has led to interop problems.

-- 
Hallvard