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pdnagilumtoday at 11:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

Wait, the users password is part of the URL? What happens if the password contains a forward slash or a question mark? Wouldn't that break the whole endpoint?


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Dan-Qtoday at 12:01 PM

Original author here. Upon inspection, these passwords are clearly not chosen by the user and, as far as I can tell, consist only of numbers and uppercase letters.

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lstoddtoday at 11:54 AM

RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL) December 1994 section 2.2