RFR: 8144100: Incorrect case-sensitive equality in com.sun.net.httpserver.BasicAuthenticator [v3]

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Fri, 10 May 2024 13:58:58 GMT, Nizar Benalla <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Passes Tier 1-3
>> Please review this change that aims to fix a bug when parsing the client's request.
>> 
>> RFC 9110 states 
>> 
>>> 11. HTTP Authentication 11.1. Authentication Scheme
>> HTTP provides a general framework for access control and authentication, via an extensible set of challenge-response authentication schemes, which can be used by a server to challenge a client request and by a client to provide authentication information. It uses a **case-insensitive** token to identify the authentication scheme: 
>> ```auth-scheme = token```
>> 
>> But in `BasicAuthenticator#authenticate` it was done in a case sensitive manner
>> 
>> TIA
>
> Nizar Benalla has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   added suggestions by daniel and jaikiran

Marked as reviewed by dfuchs (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19133#pullrequestreview-2050246741