[Zope-dev] Incorrect Padding?

[Chris Withers]

Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> Steve Alexander wrote:
> > My guess is that the argument "auth" passed to validate() has some
> > trailing characters. Either that, or WebWhacker passed just "Basic " as
> > an auth string.
> 
> Yuk, that sounds like a Zope bug. Collector time with patch? A judicious
> string.strip should solve the problem, surely?

PS:

A string.upper wouldn't go amiss either, then earlier versions of
Mozilla that send an incorrectly capitalised 'Basic' might also be
allowed to authenticate with Zope :-)

cheers,

Chris