[Tilesathome] Tried weird password chars

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Tue Aug 12 17:05:52 BST 2008


spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:41:20AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> writes:
>
>> >> > UploadPassword=*,-#,.a
>> >> 
>> >> Those characters are not that weird.  They are all in ASCII.  Try
>> >> some umlauts or so.
>> > But these exact characters failed previously according to our
>> > users.
>>  Then I would rule out UTF-8 as being a contributor to the problem.
>> The representation of those in ASCII and UTF-8 is exactly the same.
>
> OK, I removed the weird password check anyway from the client. People
> with password problems need to investigate then. It works on my box...

There isn't any escaping or other transformation of special characters
done on server side?

Matthias




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