279094 - Bad Authorization header during HTTP POST

Status: VERIFIED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Chan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When performing HTTP POST with Basic Authentication, the HTTP header
"Authorization " will be ended with "\r\n\n" instead of "\r\n".  It will break
some web server, e.g. boa

This is a "ethereal" capture when making a POST on the URL provided:

POST /post-test/test.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: www.michaelchan.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.michaelchan.org/post-test/
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=       <-- \r\n
                                            <-- \n
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded  <-- \r\n
Content-Length: 0



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.michaelchan.org/post-test/
2. Login to the page with "admin" / "admin".
3. Start ethereal capture (refer to www.ethereal.com)
4. Click the submit button
5. Stop the ethereal capture and "Follow TCP Stream" on the HTTP POST packet.
6. Switch to hex dump mode and search for "Authorization"

Actual Results:  
It breaks the boa web server. 

Expected Results:  
The "\n" should be removed from Authorization line during HTTP POST.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[Michael Chan]

This problem is just verified and is still found in 1.5.0.1.  

The bug is a stupid one.  M$ IE does not have this bug!  It should be fixed and easily be fixed.  Please do not ignore.