HTTP basic auth - German umlauts

[Former Member]

Dear community,

I am recurring to your kind and precious help in order to solve this mistery.

Let's say we want to access a resource in ICF, for example the following oData URL (which can be found in SAP NW Dev Edition): https://myserver.com/sap/opu/odata/sap/EPM_REF_APPS_SHOP_SRV

The HTTP Basic authorization pop-up should appear in the browser for us to enter the correct user credentials. So far.. so good.

Now let's say my password contains german umlauts... for example:

user: julian

password: straße1

You will notice that the authentication will fail 😞

HTTP Basic Auth encodes the entered credentials in base64 before sending them to the server. I guess the base64 encoded version of "straße1" is not what the server is expecting...

Here comes the questions:

1 - Do you see any way of avoiding this issue while keeping my beautiful german password ?

URL encoding the credentials does not seem to make any difference

All your comments are welcome and very appreciated, thanks and kind regards,

Julian

[gregorw]

I think I found the SAP Note that describes this issue: 1240796 - HTTP logon with Basic Authorization or special character