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allowable password characters in a scripted fetch application (5 posts)

• Started 9 years ago by tcpms
• Latest reply 9 years ago from tcpms

• tcpms Member

  It seems that certain special characters in a password will not work in a scripted Fetch application:
  The password in question has a '#' character.
  The script successfully connects with:
  "ftp://<username>::<pwd with '#'>@<host name>"
  and successfully executes this apple script step:
  make new remote folder at beginning with properties {name:"<folder name>"}
  But for this step:
  set myftp to "ftp://<username>::<pwd with '#'>@<host name>"
  put into url myftp item alias itemalias
  I get this result:
  error "Fetch got an error: Can’t get url ............

  Is the '#' character the problem? Do other characters also cause problems?

  Posted 9 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Some characters have to be encoded in URLs. Try replacing the # character in the URL with %23 -- does that work?

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 9 years ago #

• tcpms Member

  That does solve the problem - for this character.

  Is there a list of characters that require this solution? And others that should be avoided: I know the '*' does not require the encoding. It works just fine. And the '@' looks like it should be avoided since it looks like it would create ambiguity when parsing the text.

  Since I will have to re-program my application to accommodate this nuance, I'd like to do it right - and completely - the first time!

  Thanks

  Posted 9 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Hi,

  According to RFC 2396, the characters that do not require encoding ("Unreserved characters") are:

  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_.!~*'()

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 9 years ago #

• tcpms Member

  Thank you!

  Posted 9 years ago #