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Authentication with special characters not working

See original GitHub issue

It seems like the api is changing special characters. If I run xbox-authenticate the below happens:

user:~$ xbox-authenticate --email test@example.com --password MyPass^!7*
xbox-authenticate --email test@example.com --password MyPass^-V
Email/Password authentication failed! Err: Could not log in with supplied credentials

What could be the cause? Or should I escape the password?

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

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tuxusercommented, Jul 25, 2019

Try like this:

xbox-authenticate --email test@example.com --password "MyPass^!7*"
xbox-authenticate --email test@example.com --password 'MyPass^!7*'

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Bird87ZAcommented, Jul 25, 2019

Putting it in single apostrophes worked. Thanks

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