Description of problem: When using a password like 'test123!ü' different browsers generate the BASIC credentials string using different encodings resulting in failed authentication. This causes issues when using management console with LDAP. Same issue in Undertow: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/UNDERTOW-595 fixed in https://github.com/spyrkob/undertow/commit/98fe959a4f4cde414c36b268734e22421f170460 Note this issue is to track fixes in httpserver component. The changes to EAP code will be tracked in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270708 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up LDAP authentication with user admin identified by 'test123!ü' 2. In Firefox go to http://localhost:9990 and try to authenticate 3. Actual results: Authentication refused Expected results: Authentication successful Additional info:
Wrong link - undertow fix: https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/commit/98fe959a4f4cde414c36b268734e22421f170460
PR: https://github.com/jbossas/httpserver/pull/5
This bug was accidentally moved from POST to MODIFIED via an error in automation, please see mmccune with any questions
Verified with EAP 6.4.10.CP.CR2; -- Note: For browsers that use ISO-8859-1, like Firefox [1], the fix won't work for characters outside of ISO-8859-1 (chinese, japanase, russian etc.). [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41489
Retroactively bulk-closing issues from released EAP 6.4 cummulative patches.