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Article ID: 295431 - Last Review: September 26, 2005 - Revision: 1.3

FIX: Access Violation in MSXML3.DLL When an HTTP Request Uses Basic Authentication

This article was previously published under Q295431

SYMPTOMS

When you use XMLHTTP or ServerXMLHTTP with basic authentication and Base64 encoding, you may encounter an unhandled exception.

CAUSE

One of the internal functions (HTUU_encode) is not handling the Base64 encoding properly.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, download the latest service pack for Microsoft XML Parser.

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
308480  (http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=308480/EN-US/ ) INFO: How to Obtain the Latest Microsoft XML 3.0 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was first corrected in MSXML Service Pack 3.0 Service Pack 2.

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft XML Parser 3.0
  • Microsoft XML Parser 3.0 Service Pack 1
Keywords: 
kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbfix KB295431
       

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