[WAGON-540] Switch to modern-day encoding (UTF-8) of auth credentials

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.3.0, 3.3.1
• Component/s: wagon-http
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Michael Osipov
• Created: 14/Nov/18 21:25
• Updated: 02/Jan/19 21:02
• Resolved: 16/Dec/18 21:42

Description

These days people use non-ASCII encodings for usernames and password. While other auth schemes like NTLM or Kerberos use Unicode by default, Basic and Digest were restricted to ASCII or ISO-8859-1 for a long time. Major browsers (Chrome + FF) now have switched to UTF-8. We should do that too.

Issue Links

• depends upon: WAGON-539 Explicitly register only supported auth schemes
• is depended upon by: WAGON-538 Basic authentication fails if the password contains non-ASCII characters