Re: Percent sign password problem

Paul Lesniewski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Ignacio Agulló <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Paul Lesniewski" <[email protected]>, Lun 28 Dec 2009 18:29:57 CET:
>>
>>>      I select "Options" and then "Account Administration", which
>>> delivers a screen titled "VPOPMail - Account Administration (V 1.00)".
>>>  I change the password at the "Password administration" section.
>>> This is where it happens the described effect - passwords are altered
>>> by the browser, encoding the percent sign (%) in some different way.
>>
>> Sounds like a web server misconfiguration or something else particular
>> to your own environment and not anything to do with SquirrelMail.
>
>      No, not that.  I just realized what I should have from the start
> - seems that Alzheimer is getting me.  It's just URL encoding.  I even
> had a PHP script in order to check this kind of thing.  This is not
> the percent sign problem, but the any sign problem except for hyphen,
> dot and low line.
>
>      Seems that the users at my work don't like using symbols in
> their passwords, because if they did this problem would have arisen
> long ago.
>
>      Well, anyway.  This isn't a problem for SquirrelMail users.
> This is only a problem when using a dual mail service which involves
> SquirrelMail and POP3.

No it's not.  SquirrelMail works perfectly fine in combination with
any other IMAP clients and with POP usage as well.  Please do NOT
spread FUD here.  Normally configured browsers and web servers do not
encode POST submissions as you explain.  Your issue is particular to
your environment only, or possibly a bug in an old password change
plugin.

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