[vmchecker-dev] LDAP passwords with ';'

[Alexandru Moșoi]

2010/3/29 Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu at gmail.com>:
> We now have a problem with the authentication web service for students
> that have special characters in their passwords, like ';'.
> This char is used by LDAP to separate elements in the query. We should
> find an alternative way to send the passwords (e.g. encode them in
> base64).


Python provides various sanitation tools like quote [0].

[0] http://docs.python.org/dev/library/urllib.html#utility-functions


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