URL encoded semicolons, HTTP Authentication and Safari

Changeset 6185, or so we assume, broke our fix for Basic Authentication in Safari when using RESTful Rails routes.

Luckily it wasn’t too hard to fix the fix and we’ve decided to make a plugin out of it so we can easily keep the fix in sync with Rails for all our projects. You can find safari_basic_auth_fix in our Subversion repository. The current fix makes sure that semicolons are encoded for every outgoing URL and it decodes the semicolons for all the incoming URLs.

Update: Changeset 6485 removed semicolons as a action separator, so this shouldn’t be a problem anymore once you upgrade to Rails trunk.