[Live-devel] RTSP authentication with special characters

[Deanna Earley]

Hello Ross.

The current liveMedia has a bug where it doesn't correctly handle "special" characters in the username and password strings when passed in the URL.

RFC 3986 (and predecessors) say that anything outside the "reserved" range can be percent encoded, but liveMedia isn't currently decoding these back to a normalised string.

Resending...
Sending request: DESCRIBE rtsp://root:ab%40cd@10.1.20.1/axis-media/media.amp?videocodec=h264&streamprofile=Quality RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 4
Authorization: Basic cm9vdDphYiU0MGNk
User-Agent: openRTSP (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2015.03.01)
Accept: application/sdp

The authorisation string decodes to root:ab%40cd where it should decode to root:ab at cd (cm9vdDphYkBjZA==)

What are your thoughts on this?
Is there a URL decoder function somewhere in the library that can be dropped in here?

Thanks

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