Passwords that use High ASCII characters

[Elias Lecomte]

Hi,

The mobile vikings website allows users to use high ASCII.  http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/ascii.html
However, when I try to use the api, for example via browser: https://mobilevikings.com/api/2.0/basic/sim_balance.json?add_price_plan=1&msisdn=+32472832475
It always fails even though my password is correct.
Could there be a bug in the authorization?

Thanks to look into this.

[kevin....@mobilevikings.com]

Hi Elias,

We support extended characters in basic auth using latin-1 encoding. Because it's not clear which encoding to use in the standard, different browsers handle this in different ways. For example, Chrome will send UTF-8, whereas you should find visiting that link using Firefox will work. I have updated our API documentation to reflect this.

Hope that helps,

Kevin.

[Elias Lecomte]

If I have an € in my password, even with firefox, for me it doesn't work. Can you do the same test and confirm it works? Thanks a lot.
If I use latin encoding and then base64 encode it, it doesn't work in my app neither.

authStringEnc = Base64.encodeToString(new String(authString.getBytes(), "ISO-8859-1").getBytes(), Base64.URL_SAFE);

Op woensdag 7 mei 2014 15:11:53 UTC+2 schreef kevin....@mobilevikings.com:

[kevin....@mobilevikings.com]

Hi Elias, 

The euro sign is not included in the latin1 charset, so it is impossible to represent it. We encourage our API users to use our OAuth flow instead.

Regards,

Kevin.

[Elias Lecomte]

Hi,

That explains it, thanks! If I have some time I will implement the oauth flow.

Op dinsdag 3 juni 2014 10:07:07 UTC+2 schreef kevin....@mobilevikings.com: