Apache 1.3 and quoted AuthName strings

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I searched in the mail archive for this list but didn't find anything
that addresses my problem. Sorry, but I'm not a subscriber, so please Cc
me on any replies.

A web site I access via LWP has updated their Apache server to 1.3
(beta 4?) and because of that apparently had to quote all AuthName
strings that contained spaces, like so:

    AuthName "My Auth Scheme"

The problem is that now the header comes back looking like:

    Www-authenticate: Basic realm=""My Auth Scheme""

(Note the doubled quotes.) Although it's obviously Apache's problem,
it doesn't seem to bother NS (4.03) or IE (4.01) browsers, but it
keeps LWP::UserAgent::request() (5.14) from recognizing the realm (OK,
it thinks it has a null realm). I grabbed 5.20 and checked it -- new
implementation, same problem. Any words of wisdom, other than change the
realm to not have spaces and thus not be enquoted?

-- 
 Dave Wolfe

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