Bug: WebDAV BasicAuth Encoding - Non-Ascii Characters

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Bug: WebDAV BasicAuth Encoding - Non-Ascii Characters

Forum: Help

Creator: Sebastian Schneider

Created: 2019-02-19

Updated: 2019-02-19

Sebastian Schneider - 2019-02-19

We noticed that KeePass doesn't use UTF-8 for encoding username and password in the WebDAV Basic Authentication.

Users with non-ASCII Characters in their WebDAV password are therefore unable to authenticate.

It looks like there is no definitive standard for which encoding to use, but all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer) settled on UTF-8 by now. See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/7243567

Is it possible to change the encoding used by Keepass for the Basic Authentication?

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Dominik Reichl - 2019-02-19

KeePass operates with regular String objects, which support all Unicode characters. Details like the encoding of credentials for a specific protocol are handled by the .NET Framework; I don't think that KeePass can influence this.

Best regards,
Dominik

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