Add a note about problem noted in PR 48652

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@960431 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_form.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_form.xml
index e5cdb0c96da133972aa11e9b04ef37617782612f..0048c1e218ae8339af570b0c3b2f0e2e04702307 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_form.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_form.xml
@@ -321,6 +321,13 @@
 
     </section>
 
+    <section id="urlencoding"><title>Usernames and Passwords</title>
+    <p>Note that form submission involves URLEncoding the form data:
+    in this case the username and password.  You should therefore
+    pick usernames and passwords that avoid characters that are
+    URLencoded in form submission, or you may get unexpected results.</p>
+    </section>
+
 <directivesynopsis>
 <name>AuthFormProvider</name>
 <description>Sets the authentication provider(s) for this location</description>