Re (3): [Oberon] PPP

[Edgar at EdgarSchwarz.de]

eas-lab at absamail.co.za wrote:
> Level 2.
> ...
>   Apparently with the existing n-o system, any login ID and password
>   would be specified in the "Dial = {" section of Oberon.Text ?
>   And here the 'phrases' are deliniated by <doubleQuote,newLine>,
>   so there might be a problem if <doubleQuote> was a char, of the
>   ID or password ?
Perhaps '..."...' would work in such a case.

> level 3.
> ...
>    Apparently the PAP authentication login ID and password
>    are obtained/used in n-o from/via NetSystem.SetUser .
>    So apparently at this level "@" could be 'masked', as could
>    "%" and "/"  ?
Yes !

> Pieter Muller <pieter.muller at alumni.ethz.ch> wrote:
> For the escape mechanism I suggest URL encoding:
>   http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html

This means e.g:
> For worldwide interoperability, URIs have to be encoded uniformly. To map the
> wide range of characters used worldwide into the 60 or so allowed characters in a
> URI, a two-step process is used:
> *	Convert the character string into a sequence of bytes using the UTF-8 encoding
> *	Convert each byte that is not an ASCII letter or digit to %HH, where HH is the
> hexadecimal value of the byte
> 
> For example, the string François
> 
> would be encoded as Fran%c3%a7ois
> 
> (The "ç" is encoded in UTF-8 as two bytes C3 (hex) and A7 (hex), which are then
> written as the three characters "%c3" and "%a7" respectively.)

> Pieter Muller <pieter.muller at alumni.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > Bleibt nur noch eine Frage: Ist es zulässig das in NetSystem.SetUser
> > einzubauen oder soll ich ein PPPMain.SetUser machen ?
> It's fine by me to include it in NetSystem.SetUser.

So this could be the way to go (There are also other options):
NetSystem.SetUser learns about the % mechanism and decodes on storing.
The only problem would be 0X. But do we expect this ever to appear in a password ?

Cheers, Edgar



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