Re: authorization failed- one problem and its solution

cwarren@lorax.org ??????:
>
> Posting this here so the problem and it's solution are documented
> where people might find it.
>
> I'd been having serious problems connecting to an SVN repository. I
> tried tortoisesvn from two different machines, two different versions
> of windows command line svn (1.4.3 and 1.4.5) each on two different
> machines, and command line svn on a linux machine. In every case I was
> getting something like:
>
> C:\>svn info http://foo.com/svn/blah/
> Authentication realm: <http://foo.com:80> Repository
> Username: user
> Password for 'user': ********
> Authentication realm: <http://pvg.unfuddle.com:80> Unfuddle Repository
> Username: user
> Password for 'user': ********
> Authentication realm: <http://pvg.unfuddle.com:80> Unfuddle Repository
> Username: user
> Password for 'user': ********
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/blah'
> svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/blah': authorization failed (http://foo.com)
>
> After a day and a half of looking aroung the net and experimenting I
> eventually tried the non-interactive version:
>
> svn checkout http://foo.com/svn/blah/ blah --username user --password
> xyz123) --non-interactive
>
> and got this error message:
>
> Too many )'s.
>
> I tried it again with "xyz123)" and got no error message but still
> couldn't connect. Then, just for the heck of it, I changed my password
> to get gid of the ), and suddenly everything worked! Worked from
> linux, worked from windows command line, and worked from tortoisesvn!
> PROBLEM SOLVED!
>
> So, if you're having svn client auth problems and nothing else seems
> to fix them, try changing your password and maybe that will do the trick.
>
> I don't know whether it's just the right paren that causes problems or
> if there are other non-alpha-numeric characters that could also cause
> it to choke. I know there are some that work just fine.
>
> -Chris
>
>
I suppose that some syntax parser somewhere on the way
decides that ')' is not a part of the password but a separate token.
I am curious what will happen if you put '(' in front of the password,
keeping ')' at its back.

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