[MCHANGES-167] Jira Password is not URL Encoded - Jira Authentication Fails when Jira Password contains not allowed in URL characters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: jira
• Environment: mvn on Mac OS X 10.5.7; Atlassian JIRA Enterprise Edition, Version: 3.13.2 on Ubuntu 8.04.2
• Assignee: Dennis Lundberg
• Reporter: Vangelis Ghiossis
• Created: 05/Aug/09 06:32
• Updated: 08/Apr/15 08:03
• Resolved: 01/Jan/11 09:26

Description

When a jira-report is configured to run against a private Jira installation that requires login credentials, if a user's password contains non URL-friendly characters, Jira authentication fails.
For example my Jira user's password is:

password#

With this password Jira authentication fails.

As a workaround I can use:

password%23

i.e. with the "#" URL-encoded and in this case, authentication works fine and the jira-report is produced.
I suppose here that the password is included in the Jira Download of issues URL.