http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561626 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561626#c2 Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED CC| |jsmeix@novell.com Platform|x86-64 |All Info Provider|l.blissett@rocketmail.com | Resolution| |DUPLICATE Target Milestone|--- |Future 11.3 --- Comment #2 from Johannes Meixner 2009-12-11 11:36:11 UTC --- See the help text in YaST: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special characters must be percent-encoded (also known as URL encoding). For example a space character ' ' must be written as '%20' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The topmost up-to-date yast2-printer RPM version 2.19.1 from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/YaST:/Head/openSUSE_11.2/ contains an URIpercentEncoding function which is meant as "some kind of automated fix" when the user entered URI values but forgot to do percent encoding. The help text in the Connection Wizard dilaog explicitely demands that URI values (components) must be entered with percent encoding. The URIpercentEncoding function is only used for percent encoding for a single URI component. In particular this function is not used where the user can enter a whole URI or the whole set of URI options (e.g. option1=value1&option2=value2). In the latter cases the user must still enter the value with percent encoding. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 559025 *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559025 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561626 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561626#c Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |ASSIGNED -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561626 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561626#c5 --- Comment #5 from Johannes Meixner 2009-12-11 15:30:20 UTC --- Fixed first part (the easy part): Line 49 in /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/test_remote_smb is now test -z "$PASSWORD" && PASSWORD="-N" Fixed in yast2-printer SVN revision 60076. Still to do is the percent encoded value stuff. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561626 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561626#c7 --- Comment #7 from Johannes Meixner 2009-12-18 14:07:23 UTC --- Hopefully finally fixed in yast2-printer SVN revision 60152. I was almost toast in the encoding hell but it seems now the percent encoding stuff works in a reasonable way. I had the idea to implement some kind of automated magic which can detect (at least for the usual cases) if an input string which is provided by the user needs to be percent encoded or not so that the user could just enter what he likes (at least for the usual cases) and the magic would know what to do. The reason behind was that I liked not to bother the user with this annoying percent encoding stuff at all. But this is not possible. The reason is that percent encoding uses the percentage character as initial character for a percent encoding (e.g. a space character is percent encoded as '%20') but a percentage character is also allowed as regular character to be used for URI values. In particular the password value makes it clear: When the user entered 'Foo%25Bar' as password value it is impossible for an automatism to find out if the '%25' is meant as an already percent encoded '%' (so that no further automated percent encoding is needed) or if '%25' is meant as literal part of the password (so that it must be percent encoded to '%2525'). Because password values are a usual case, no automated magic for usual cases is possible. Therefore I falled back to a not-so-friendly user interface which requires usually literal (i.e. non-percent-encoded) input (e.g. the user name and password input fields) where an automated percent encoding is done in any case. But there exist some special input fields (primarily intended for expert settings) which require already percent encoded input (e.g. the input field for the whole URI) because in these cases an automated percent encoding is not possible with reasonable effort (not the whole URI is percent encoded but each component value of an URI must be separately percent encoded and I will not implement an URI parser which works for any arbitrary URI). These special input fields are denoted by a '[percent-encoded]' hint. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.