From: Johannes Gijsbers <jlg@dds.nl>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:25:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #1075928: AUTH PLAIN in smtplib.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a0~2287
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=25946ddac90e2f69199af740cbaaa08beb13d9a9;p=python

Patch #1075928: AUTH PLAIN in smtplib.

smtplib can not log in to some server using command AUTH PLAIN, it sends
``user\0user\0pass'' to the server, but ``\0user\0pass'' has better
compatibility.
---

diff --git a/Lib/smtplib.py b/Lib/smtplib.py
index 2e12483885..368aa8dc6a 100755
--- a/Lib/smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/smtplib.py
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ class SMTP:
             return encode_base64(response, eol="")
 
         def encode_plain(user, password):
-            return encode_base64("%s\0%s\0%s" % (user, user, password), eol="")
+            return encode_base64("\0%s\0%s" % (user, password), eol="")
 
 
         AUTH_PLAIN = "PLAIN"