From ecbffe69dc3ad05ebc60b3b926f23be86a5d6a88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Unrud <Unrud@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 12:21:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Veify Authorization Scheme

---
 radicale/__init__.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/radicale/__init__.py b/radicale/__init__.py
index f679304..fb23675 100644
--- a/radicale/__init__.py
+++ b/radicale/__init__.py
@@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ class Application:
         # Ask authentication backend to check rights
         authorization = environ.get("HTTP_AUTHORIZATION", None)
 
-        if authorization:
-            authorization = authorization.lstrip("Basic").strip()
+        if authorization and authorization.startswith("Basic"):
+            authorization = authorization[len("Basic"):].strip()
             user, password = self.decode(base64.b64decode(
                 authorization.encode("ascii")), environ).split(":", 1)
         else: