Okay, thanks Henrik,
I have modded my helpers to unencode this.
Cheers once again for your always extremely helpful replies
Scott
On 27/05/2005, at 2:48 PM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Scott Horsley wrote:
scott abc#123
would produce
scott abc%23123
Correct. Documented in the Squid-2.5 release notes.
This is obviously quite annoying as it restricts passwords to be plain alphanumeric
Rather the opposite actually. But your helper needs to know how to decode the data sent by Squid. This encoding is plain URL encoding using %NN where NN is the hex code of the "odd" character.
A) This was normal behaviour
Yes.
B) Is a fix for this?
Yes, make your helper support the format used by Squid-2.5.
C) Am I doing something wrong?
D) Do I need to adjust my helper to re-ascii my password in order to authenticate users?
Yes.
E) Has anybody else come across this?
Yes.
I made this change in the helper format for Squid-2.5 it as there was a lot of problems with non-ascii usernames or passwords. Most notably space characters.
Regards Henrik
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