AUTHENTICATE PLAIN

[Phil Chambers]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:33:42 -0500 (EST) Rob Siemborski <rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Phil Chambers wrote:
> 
> > As I understand it from http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/rfc/imsp.html the IMSP server
> > should then respond with a "+" followed by a base64 string.  Instead it just puts
> > out the "+" without the base64 string.
> 
> The base64 string for the first server challenge of PLAIN is empty (that
> is, there is no initial server challenge).  So, your server is doing the
> right thing.
> 
> -Rob

Thanks for that info.  What happens next is that Mulberry send a base64 string:

AEFOT3RoZXIAZnRzcXN0YXI=

and the server then disconnects.  In fact, I have just seen from the SYSLOG that it 
core-dumps!

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster at exeter.ac.uk)
University of Exeter