Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Help regarding how wireshark converts www passwords in htt

From: surabhi pandey <eshi14@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:47:20 +0530
Thankx  Sake ...

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9 jun 2010, at 09:18, surabhi pandey wrote:

> Proxy-Authorization: Basic d3d3MTgxMzpodGlqbmVycw==
>
>
> In wireshark Proxy authorization info is displayed as plain text .... which I m not able figure out !!

The basic authentication string is just a base64 encoded version of the username/password:

sake@brutus:~$ uudecode
begin-base64 644 auth
d3d3MTgxMzpodGlqbmVycw==
====
sake@brutus:~$ cat auth
www1813:htijners

Hope this helps,
Cheers,


Sake

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