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Bug 189369

Summary:	Report Problem dialog does not URLEncode password before authenticating with netbeans.org
Product:	ide	Reporter:	brucechapman <brucechapman>
Component:	Exceptions Reporter	Assignee:	Tomas Hurka <thurka>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description brucechapman 2010-08-11 05:08:21 UTC

I was trying to use the "Report A Problem" dialog, and kept getting "Username or password is wrong" with what I knew was the correct password. I then replaced the '+' character in the password with '%2b' and it worked. This strongly suggests that the entered password is not be URLEncoded before being sent to server but needs to be.

Comment 1 stevenwdv 2017-08-16 15:46:57 UTC

I can confirm this, passwords with '&' don't work.

Comment 2 stevenwdv 2017-08-16 15:48:54 UTC

By the way, should I update the 'Version' field to the last affected version? Or does this field reflect the first version the bug was found in?