Authentication with special characters not working

[Bird87ZA]

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?

[kufhjer]

Encode your password before doing the authentication.

[Bird87ZA]

Encode how? Just base64?

[Bird87ZA]

Tried Base64 and a urlencode and both still fail.

[kufhjer]

Strange, I use url encode and mine is working. Unable to check my code until Sunday as I am on holiday.

[Bird87ZA]

No worries. I'll continue trying until I figure it out.

If I figure it out before Sunday, will post here. Perhaps something I'll add to the docs just so everyone knows :)

[Bird87ZA]

Just an update on this. I encode my password and get this: MyPass%5E%217%2A

Then I run: xbox-authenticate --email test@example.com --password MyPass%5E%217%2A

And it still throws: Email/Password authentication failed! Err: Could not log in with supplied credentials

When I use a buddy's login that has no special characters, it works 100% fine.

[tuxuser]

Try like this:

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

[Bird87ZA]

Putting it in single apostrophes worked. Thanks