[Tilesathome] Tried weird password chars

spaetz osm at sspaeth.de
Tue Aug 12 18:10:57 BST 2008


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:05:52PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> 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?

No, you can test it  by changing your osm password and uploading a tileset over the web form. if that works, it works on the server side.

spaetz




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