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Fail to login when password has special chars

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First, thank you for this, it’s going to be extremely valuable to me (reading on an e-reader is so much more comfortable than on a tablet or a phone)

Now, my problem is my passwords are generated, and, as such, contain special chars.

Right now, two of them are giving me problems: : and $

As a workaround, I escaped $ with \, but I had to modify credentials parsing to change the configured separator into a character which does not appear in my password.

May I suggest adding a --sep option, defaulting to :, so that user can choose whatever char suits best ?

As for $, I think it’s more of a shell related problem, and I can’t see for now a solution to this (other than escaping it, that is). Do you have any idea how we could overcome this ?

I am not fluent in python, but I can probably submit a PR making this separator option change, what do you think ?

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  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:12 (5 by maintainers)

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MatElGrancommented, May 21, 2018

That’s what I thought, perhaps on note on the README could help future users ? Anyway, thanks for having a look at it

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narsimuluakulacommented, May 12, 2020

Hi password has only @ and it is a corporate account. I am unable to login. Any advise ?

  ____     ___         _     
  / __/__ _/ _/__ _____(_)    
 _\ \/ _ `/ _/ _ `/ __/ /     
/___/\_,_/_/ \_,_/_/ /_/      
  / _ )___  ___  / /__ ___    
 / _  / _ \/ _ \/  '_/(_-<    
/____/\___/\___/_/\_\/___/    
[-] Logging into Safari Books Online...                                                                                  
[#] HTTPSConnectionPool(host='learning.oreilly.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /login/unified/?next=/home/ (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x10e9c3190>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 60] Operation timed out'))
[#] Login: unable to reach Safari Books Online. Try again...                                                             
[!] Aborting...
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