Hi Nicolas,
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 13:35, Nicolas Neuss neuss@kit.edu wrote:
I am trying to make Shibboleth authentification work for an application of mine. For this I am using the Apache2 Shibboleth module (my server sits behind Apache). Everything works fine, but for one thing. The authentification data is passed in the headers section in UTF-8 format (probably).
Before going into any depth on this, can you have a look at the headers and find out in what character set they are encoded? HTTP headers must be encoded as ISO-8859-1. If a client wants to send data in different encoding, quoted-printable encoding as described in RFC 2047 must be used.
Thus, it would be a client error if you saw UTF-8 encoded data in headers. If the data is properly encoded using RFC 2047 rules, the behavior that you see would be a bug.
-Hans