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having trouble verifying pacts from broker

See original GitHub issue

when running verifyPacts with pactUrls pointing to local files, it is successfully doing verification of the pact. however, as soon as i try to change the url to point to a pact on my remote broker (https and using basic auth), i get the following error:

[Error: /bin/sh: <part of the password>: command not found
/bin/sh: <a different part of the password>: command not found
/Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/app/lib/pact/provider_verifier/app.rb:32:in `get_pact_consumer_name': undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
    from /Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/app/lib/pact/provider_verifier/app.rb:55:in `block in verify_pacts'
    from /Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/app/lib/pact/provider_verifier/app.rb:54:in `collect'
    from /Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/app/lib/pact/provider_verifier/app.rb:54:in `verify_pacts'
    from /Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/app/lib/pact/provider_verifier/cli.rb:18:in `verify'
    from /Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run'
    from /Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `invoke_command'
    from /Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor.rb:359:in `dispatch'
    from /Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/base.rb:440:in `start'
    from /Users/admin/development/travi.org/api/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier-darwin/lib/app/pact-provider-verifier.rb:3:in `<main>'
]

note that the pact that i was using locally was a file fetched directly from the same url and credentials using postman.

i would expect that if it were failing to fetch from the broker, that i would get an error related to the fetch, but i’m not sure how to get more information about the context of the error. i did notice that parts of my password for the broker show up in the error (the minor edits in the output above). they seem to be split after & characters. if this is the case, i’m surprised that i don’t get a “failed to auth” error before it tries to parse for a consumer name.

could you provide some guidance about how to dig deeper? is there a way to put the ruby portion into a debug mode? if this issue is that special characters need to be escaped, i’m not sure what the sequence would need to be here since i am passing the string as an option to verifyPacts. could it be updated to do the necessary escaping automatically?