Re: draft-ietf-ldapext-authmeth-00

[Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>]

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, John Haxby wrote:
> Not quite.  Any user name, a space and a sequence of hex digits can be
> unambiguously interpreted since the hex digits do not contain any space
> characters.

True.  But how many people will do a right-to-left parse unless they think
about this issue?  The CRAM-MD5 test code I wrote (for our SASL servers)
simply forbid use of space in user names (since it's rare in other
protocols).  I will change my code to do the right-to-left parse before I
release it, but unless this is documented in a revision to CRAM-MD5, there
may be interoperability problems.  I'll pass a note on to the document
editors.

		- Chris