Switch Basic Authentication encoding to UTF-8 #1970
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RFC 7617 introduces a new
charset
parameter for the Basic authentication scheme with a single allowed value "UTF-8".Clients that comply to this RFC should encode the user name and password using UTF-8 if the parameter is present. Clients that always use UTF-8 obviously comply to this rule.
Up until now Log4j used the system encoding for Basic authentication. This PR:
log4j2.configurationAuthorizationEncoding
property to overwrite the default value.This problem was detected by Error Prone in #1961.