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+ <H1>[99s-extend] HTTP Basic Auth base64 decode fails</H1>
+ <B>Lo&#239;c Hoguin</B>
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+ <I>Tue Jul 8 15:21:28 CEST 2014</I>
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+<PRE>Parsing of any header may crash. Some may also return an error tuple,
+though that behavior slowly changes and it will always crash in 2.0. So
+just wrap the call around a try/catch if you need to handle the error.
+
+Note that at this exact moment I'm working on returning 400 instead of
+500 automatically when parsing headers end up crashing (and possibly
+other situations later on).
+
+On 07/08/2014 03:17 PM, Paulo F. Oliveira wrote:
+&gt;<i> Hello, y'all.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I'm using HTTP Basic Auth in my API. While calling
+</I>&gt;<i> cowboy_req:parse_header(&lt;&lt;&quot;authorization&gt;&gt;&quot;, ... with an _invalid_
+</I>&gt;<i> Authorization header such as &quot;Authorization: Basic Test1&quot; I get an error
+</I>&gt;<i> 500 back and an error log message on the server.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> 1. Is this the expected behavior? [if I understand correctly, my request
+</I>&gt;<i> is going through authorization(UserPass, Type = &lt;&lt;&quot;basic&quot;&gt;&gt;) and this
+</I>&gt;<i> has no check for the string being correctly encoded]
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> 2. what would be the best way to guard against this &quot;error&quot;?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Thanks.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> - Paulo F. Oliveira
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
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