AUTHENTICATE PLAIN

[Rob Siemborski]

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

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