340438 - users with wide-char names cannot log in

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41489

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[tzhuo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060605

I am using Chinese Windows XP. I cann not log onto a web site via Mozilla with wide-char user names, e.g. with user name "卓" and password "password". 

The username and password will be encoded (in base64) as "UzpwYXNzd29yZA==" in the message header. This is wrong. String "UzpwYXNzd29yZA==" will be decoded to "S:password", not "卓:password".

I don't have this problem on IE6.0. In IE6.0, the user name and password will be encoded as "1786cGFzc3dvcmQ=" which is correct.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open mozillar
2. try to log onto any website that requires authentication
3. type in "卓" in user name field, and "password" in password field.

Actual Results:  
GET /si;jsessionid=85977C42AC1C274083C2F1CB1E635C65?mks.commandRunner=23 HTTP/1.1
Host: hqzhuo:7001
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060605
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
Authorization: Basic UzpwYXNzd29yZA==



Expected Results:  
GET /is.css HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Referer: http://hqzhuo:7001/si;jsessionid=4D96990B2E7D46F034ED892EFC9ED6B2?mks.commandRunner=29&mks.render=Control
Accept-Language: zh-cn
If-Modified-Since: Tue, 02 May 2006 18:27:08 GMT
If-None-Match: W/"3215-1146594428000"
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Host: hqzhuo:7001
Authorization: Basic 1786cGFzc3dvcmQ=

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41489 ***