[Tilesathome] weird password characters

[Norbert Wenzel]

spaetz wrote:
> 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.

I just checked with the t at h client and found the following. Using the 
typical "first-letter-of-sentence"-password (e.g. "AMsmzimidGh." [fake 
password]) caused the well-known "Check for upload password" error, when 
trying to render one tile. It has been set correctly in OSM before.

I changed the password in authenticate.conf back to my old easy all 
lowercase letters password and I could upload tiles. Might be a good 
workaround using a really dumb passwort for t at h and then changing it in 
OSM to a better password.

Norbert

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