Forum authority authentication problem with non-ascii characters

[Tank Program]

I think it might be due to using the http header to return the user name.

[dlh]

It's actually the escaped version of the raw authenticated name. The URL escaped username is different. We have:

• Raw authenticated name: §tar§truck@forums
• Armagetron escaped authenticated name, which is used in stat files (won_matches.txt, ladderlog.txt, etc): %C2%A7tar%C2%A7truck@forums
• URL escaped name, which is used when communicating with the auth server: %C2%A7tar%C2%A7truck

In the previous example the escaped auth name is the same as the URL escaped name, but they have different escaping rules. For example:

• Raw: Name With Spaces@forums
• Armagetron escaped: Name\_With\_Spaces@forums
• URL escaped: Name%20With%20Spaces

... and here's what you get when you URL escape the Armagetron escaped name: %25C2%25A7tar%25C2%25A7truck%40forums

[Tank Program]

Does this difference make it an issue that needs fixing? The escaped name is used pretty much only in the logs. Can it even be fixed? The only thing I can thing to do is to do an iconv encoding back to latin1 from in the bit where it gets the user name out of the database and I can't imagine that helping.

[Z-Man]

Nah, no problems. If I understand dhl correctly embarrassingly telling me what my code is doing, the escaping seen here is done on the server, and for the purpose of logs, we should not change it. Only, perhaps, for the purpose of sending messages to the clients.

[dlh]

It wasn't meant to be condescending. My apologies if it read like that.

[Z-Man]

No worries, I really didn't remember everything the code does to the names.