[Tilesathome] weird password characters

[spaetz]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:01:06PM +0200, Norbert Wenzel wrote:
> 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.

Yes, you would get that as the t at h client is still checking for easy passwords locally. I had disabled this check for my test. It would need to be removed on the client side. I think I'll just do that and add a comment in authentication.conf.example that people need either easy passwords, or save the file in UTF-8 encoding.

spaetz