[jcifs] URL Oddity in 0.7.0b9

[Michael B. Allen]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:58:23 -0600
"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> I'm doing this:
> 
> $ java -DdisablePlainTextPasswords=false Exists \
> > smb://crh:p%40ssword@duplo/tmp
> 
> ...and Ethereal is showing me that the password being sent is "p%40ssword".
> 
> It seems that something somewhere is not un-escaping the escapes.

True. There is no attempt to decode the URL. This will need to be fixed
however I cannot just run the whole thing through a URLDecoder. I will
have to parse out the escapes in jcifs.smb.Handler.

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