[Tilesathome] weird password characters (was: Authentication error)

[spaetz]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:54:29AM +0200, spaetz wrote:
> it's not in the t at h database, meaning you never authenticated successfully.
> There is an issue with passwords that contain "weird" characted, ie all non-letters, I guess. It still needs looking into, until then, try to set your password to something easy and try again. I am sorry for this.

I just had a look at it:
First of all, I have now implemented changing passwords. If you have changed your password in OpenStreetMap the change would not happen in t at h until now.
Now, t at h will try to authenticate locally first, and if that fails, it will check OSM if it would accept the password. If yes, we update the password in the t at h db.

2) I changed my password on the OpenStreetMap site to '*#;,hsdf78jk+?' (don't even try, I have changed it back by now :-)) and tried to upload a tileset through the web interface at http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Request/upload/ This worked like a charm. I then changed my password to something else and tried to upload another tileset through the interface, and that worked like a charm too. So, weird password characters do work from the server side.
I haven't tried with the t at h client though, I guess the t at h client needs to trsnmit the password as an UTF-8 string to make weird password characters work.

OK, that's all for now.
spaetz