bug#36619: 26.2; url-auth: Base64 encoded Basic auth password truncated

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Joshua Bachmeier <joshua@bachmeier.cc> writes:

> My password (retrived by the url package with `auth-source') is rather
> long. When encoding it in base64 (using `base64-encode-string') in
> `url/url-auth.el:123' it is split into multiple lines (this behaviour is
> specified in the documentation of `base64-encode-string'. However, since
> the base64-string is then simply put into the HTTP header, everything
> after the first newline is lost, the password is effectively truncated.

This should now be fixed on the Emacs trunk.

> `base64-encode-string' provides an optional argument to supress line
> splitting. I guess this should be used here (and propably in many
> other places).

I went through the Emacs codebase, and the only other place this seemed
to be an issue was in nnimap.el, and explains a mysterious bug report
about truncated auth.

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