auth_httpform password encoding bug

[John Newbigin]

Hi,

This is a patch I have been sitting on for some time.

I have been upgrading from 2.1.19 to 2.1.23 and I have found that some 
of my patches are still required (and even work).

(These are red hat releases but it seems relevant to the vanilla source 
too).

The first issue is that when using saslauthd with auth_httpform, the 
password is not correctly encoded if it contains a & character. I also 
escape the % which I think is required. Spaces and + might also be a 
problem (untested).

For full correctness, all the expanded parameters should probably be 
correctly encoded as x-www-form-urlencoded
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_8.html
I can implement that if anyone is interested but there might be others 
who know the code better.

Regards,

John.


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