Forum authority authentication problem with non-ascii characters

[§tar§truck]

I have tried to login typing this:

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/login §tar§truck@forums

And when i type in my password, the error comes up with USER_NOT_FOUND. Is it because servers cannot recognize the symbol "§"? That wouldn't make sense because these forums allowed me to use the username so it should allow me to authenticate through the server using this username...some help please?

[dlh]

What client version are you running? Older client versions didn't escape the username automatically.

[§tar§truck]

I'm running 0.3_alpha8870. One of the newest versions. I don't know why authentication isn't working.

[epsy]

Hell yeah it is old. Try this one instead:

http://forums3.armagetronad.net/viewtop ... 50&t=20106

[dlh]

I created a new account here, Te§tU§ername, and I also couldn't get armathentication to work. I then created another account, TestUsername, and ensured that authentication is still working for plain ASCII usernames. I also tried Te§tU§ername with my authority (generalconsumption.org) and it worked fine. This is just an issue on the forums authority.

Tank Program will have to look into this. My guess is that it's an encoding problem, but I don't have access to the forums armathentication setup to investigate.

Note: Can a mod split this to a new topic?

[Jonathan]

UTF-8 "§" = Latin 1 "§" = C2 A7

Would using § in the user name or login name instead work? I don't know which encodings are actually involved though, or if it kills it some other way.

[Tank Program]

OK, it may be fixed. It needed

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mysql_set_charset("utf8");

after the connection. We might want to add this to bzr as well.

[§tar§truck]

So what do I do to log in? This mysql stuff isn't English to me so I'm lost in what I need to do to authenticate.

[Jonathan]

He meant "I might have fixed it. Go try and log in normally."

[Tank Program]

He meant "I might have fixed it. Go try and log in normally."

Yes, sorry for being unclear. Please test if it works now.

[§tar§truck]

So i tried and it logs me in now. Cool. So whatever you did changed the '§' into '%C2%A7'.
My login looks like this %C2%A7tar%C2%A7truck@forums.
That's so weird but works lol.

[Z-Man]

That looks like it's URLencoded. If I get things right, the game server expects plain UTF8 in the response (yes, even 0.2.. So there's still a a missing decode/one too many encodes in the authority code somewhere where it reports the true username.

[§tar§truck]

So Tank will have to do some more 'looking into it' before he knows he fixed it? Because I dont know diddly squat about this encoding stuff.

[Jonathan]

Yeah, looks like it.

[dlh]

The escaped name is the true username. However using the un-escaped version only for display purposes would be an okay change.