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[GSS](7.4.z) ELY-303 ELY-2298 - The 'Basic' and 'Digest' HTTP Authentication Schemes not compatible with RFC7617 and RFC7616

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      As per RFC 7617 [1], the Basic authentication scheme should be case insensitive. However when testing with elytron, the basic authentication headers are case sensitive:

       curl -k -v -H "Authorization: BASIC cXVpY2tzdGFydFVzZXI6cXVpY2tzdGFydFB3ZDEh" http://localhost:8080/servlet-security/SecuredServlet
      *   Trying ::1:8080...
      * connect to ::1 port 8080 failed: Connection refused
      *   Trying 127.0.0.1:8080...
      * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
      > GET /servlet-security/SecuredServlet HTTP/1.1
      > Host: localhost:8080
      > User-Agent: curl/7.76.1
      > Accept: */*
      > Authorization: BASIC cXVpY2tzdGFydFVzZXI6cXVpY2tzdGFydFB3ZDEh
      > 
      * Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
      < HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
      < Expires: 0
      < Connection: keep-alive
      < WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="RealmUsersRoles"
      < Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
      < Pragma: no-cache
      < Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
      < Content-Length: 71
      < Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:52:12 GMT
      < 
      * Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
      <html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>Unauthorized</body></html>
       curl -k -v -H "Authorization: Basic cXVpY2tzdGFydFVzZXI6cXVpY2tzdGFydFB3ZDEh" http://localhost:8080/servlet-security/SecuredServlet
      *   Trying ::1:8080...
      * connect to ::1 port 8080 failed: Connection refused
      *   Trying 127.0.0.1:8080...
      * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
      > GET /servlet-security/SecuredServlet HTTP/1.1
      > Host: localhost:8080
      > User-Agent: curl/7.76.1
      > Accept: */*
      > Authorization: Basic cXVpY2tzdGFydFVzZXI6cXVpY2tzdGFydFB3ZDEh
      > 
      * Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
      < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
      < Expires: 0
      < Connection: keep-alive
      < Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
      < Pragma: no-cache
      < Content-Length: 230
      < Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:52:33 GMT
      < 
      <html><head><title>servlet-security</title></head><body>
      <h1>Successfully called Secured Servlet </h1>
      <p>Principal  : quickstartUser</p>
      <p>Remote User : quickstartUser</p>
      <p>Authentication Type : BASIC</p>
      </body></html>

      [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7617#section-2

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              rhn-support-rmartinc Ricardo Martin Camarero
              rhn-support-mavassil Maria Vassileva
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