[HIGH] STR #2459: Patch to allow comment chars inpasswordfields

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Daniel M. Lambea wrote:
>> Did you try to use the official IETF URL encoding rule for translating
>> the '#'-character (that would be '%23', AFAIR) when you configured the
>> device URI?
>>
>> (That would translate 'smb://username:p#sswo#d@windowshost/printername'
>> into 'smb://username:p%23sswo%23d@windowshost/printername'...)
> 
> No, I didn't. I saw a difference between my two versions of CUPS 
>> (v1.2.8 and 1.2.12) which allowed the first '#' to be escaped using
>> '\\', and that scheme is the one I used.
> 
> I think your suggestion to use IETF's rule is more correct. I will 
>> proceed that way, then will post the patched patch.  :-)

My suggestion was not about changing your patch. My suggestion was about
changing your device URI in your *existing* smb:// print queue by re-
writing it according to the URL encoding rules.... and see if this helps
for your cause *now* (without patching anything).

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