Pound symbol as part of password not being accepted

[Peter Schober]

* Morris, Andi <amorris at cardiffmet.ac.uk> [2014-06-23 14:47]:
> 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.

You said you're using the RemoteUser login handler, so ignore all
suggestions about changing JSP files, you're not using them (as others
have alrady stated).

> " 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.

When I try to access https://idp.uwic.ac.uk/idp/Authn/RemoteUser I'm
being sent to
https://idp.uwic.ac.uk/CookieAuth.dll?GetLogon?curl=Z2FidpZ2FAuthnZ2FRemoteUser&reason=0&formdir=2
so whatever that code is, that's where it seems authentication is
happening. Which is not Shibboleth. So it's not something this list
can help you with.
-peter