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[Dolph Mathews <1352314@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for documenting the behavior, along with pretty much everything else
in keystoneclient.common.cms

** Project changed: keystone => python-keystoneclient

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Title:
  Meaningless replacing of slashes with dashes in PKI tokens

Status in Python client library for Keystone:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  It looks like Keystone uses some a bit strange conception of Base64 which does not include slashes - https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/bcc0f6d6fc1f674bc4b340d041b28bc1cfddf66a
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648 shows that slash is a valid Base64 character.

  So currently for some unknown reason Keystone replaces slashes with
  dashes when returning tokens and does the opposite when reading
  tokens.

  I understand that fixing this will break backwards compatibility but
  it makes sense at least to document this strange behaviour so
  developers accessing Keystone not with Keystone original bindings
  (e.g. from othe languages) will not be caught by surprise.

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