Pound symbol as part of password not being accepted

Mon Jun 23 08:46:32 EDT 2014

Hi,
I've finally had a chance to give this a try and I've edited all the jsp files within C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\idp as per the suggestions below and restarted tomcat, but I still see the issue.

Also I've had a go at the other suggestions put forward:

"You haven't said how you are authenticating to the backend password store (ldap, kerb)   or what theat store is (Active directory, Novell etc)"

 - Apologies, we are authenticating with Active Driectory using LDAP.

" Then you're using tomcat managed authentication. There is some encoding problem with the FormAuthenticator. A simple fix would be to force the character encoding, as explained here :
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/valve.html#Form_Authenticator_Valve"

 - Thanks, that's helpful. Unfortunately it doesn't appear that my Tomcat is set to use forms authentication. Certainly there is no reference to it within my web.xml where I would expect it to be. 

I'm at a total loss here.

Cheers,
Andi

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Manuel Haim
Sent: 14 April 2014 08:32
To: users at shibboleth.net
Subject: Re: Pound symbol as part of password not being accepted

Hi,

initially we had some problems with German umlauts... Here are just three points you could try:

1. Make sure your jsp files are stored as UTF-8.

2. Within each jsp file, add the following line at the top:

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

3. Within the html <head> element of your jsp files, add the line

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Kind regards,
Manuel
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