Re: Percent sign password problem
Paul Lesniewski <[email protected]>
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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. -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: [email protected] List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel