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   <H1>[99s-extend] HTTP Basic Auth base64 decode fails</H1>
    <B>Paulo F. Oliveira</B> 
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<PRE>Great, thanks.

I saw some changes &quot;from 422 to 400&quot; in recent versions (PUT and POST).
Thanks for the heads up. As long as they're document, no harm shall come of
these changes.

In any case, if I see it happen very often live I'll &quot;protect&quot; it agains
the _bad_ header :-).

Cheers.

- Paulo F. Oliveira


On 8 July 2014 14:21, Lo&#239;c Hoguin &lt;<A HREF="https://lists.ninenines.eu/listinfo/extend">essen at ninenines.eu</A>&gt; wrote:

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