Timsieved valid commands -- it works cool!

[Su Li]

Thank a lot! It works very well! Really cool!

Thanks, every one who helped me on this problem.

Su

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Keasling [mailto:mark at air.co.jp]
Sent: November 19, 2002 11:55 PM
To: Su Li
Subject: Re: Timsieved valid commands


Hi,

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:30:16 -0500, Su Li <sli at rim.net> wrote...
> Thanks so much. That is helpful. As my client is used internally within the fire wall. I am sure SASL will be better solution. But LOGIN or PLAIN is good enough for authentication for now. I gonna try LOGIN and PLAIN first. 
> 
> I still got 2 questions to confirm with you:
> 
> 1. I wounder should I replace "b64data=" in your example with base64 user name and password, or the syntex should be "b64data=encodedData" where encoded Data is the actual encoded password? 
> 
Sorry, I wasn't clear about that...
The first b64data= should be replaced with the encoded username for example
the username "cyrus" encoded would become "Y3lydXM="

C: AUTHENTICATE "LOGIN"
S: {12}
S: VXNlcm5hbWU6
C: {8+}
C: Y3lydXM=

The second b64data= should  be replaced with the encoded password for example
the password "pass1234" encoded would become "cGFzczEyMzQ="

S: {12}
S: UGFzc3dvcmQ6
C: {12+}
C: cGFzczEyMzQ=
S: OK

> 2. For AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN", I don't need encode password and user name right?
> 
>From my read of the rfc that was my impression.  So I would venture to say that
you are correct.


One thing that tripped me up for a while was the timsieved accepts strings in
only two formats:

"quoted strings like this"

or asynchronous literal:

{82+}
Or a literal string like this
which can contain new lines
and probably 8 bit data.

Like with IMAP, I originally thought you could send synchronous literals:
C: {82}
S: + OK send your data
C: Or a literal string like this
C: which can contain new lines
C: and probably 8 bit data.

or atomic strings like:
atomic-strings-like-this

Regards,
Mark Keasling <mark at air.co.jp>