CXF Basic authentication does not handle non-ASCII characters in username or password
Issue
- CXF does not handle non-ASCII but valid ISO 8859-1 characters in Basic authentication username/passwords
- CXF basic authentication supplier does not handle username or passwords with umlauts, grave, tilde or other accents
Environment
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
- CXF web service client using BASIC or DIGEST authentication mechanism
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