[WAGON-487] Saved password with french accent breaks deployment

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.12
• Component/s: wagon-http
• External issue URL: http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/problem-when-deploying-to-nexus-with-a-password-with-accent-td5910070.html
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dominique Jean-Prost
• Created: 27/Jun/17 06:49
• Updated: 16/Dec/18 21:47
• Resolved: 16/Dec/18 21:47

Description

I cannot deploy any artifact to my sonatype nexus instance when using a pasword with french accetn, like 'é'.
This instance needs authentication to deploy.
My test :

1. Check authentication against nexus directly with a password containing accent : OK
2. Check deploy with clear password in settings.xml with no accent : OK
3. Check deploy with encrypted password in settings.xml with no accent : OK
4. Check deploy with clear password in settings.xml with accent : KO
5. Check deploy with encrypted password in settings.xml with accent : KO

After many minutes of debugging, I managed to verify that my password is correctly "read" in the settings org.apache.maven.settings.Server : it has nothing to do with settings.xml XML encoding.

When finally wagon enters the game, the http header with authentication basic contains a '? ' instead of my 'é'. I managed to narrow the problem to org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.auth.BasicScheme which I think is the cuplrit by not dealing correctly with charset encoding in the authenticate method.

I came to the end of what I can do for the moment, appart of changing my password to remove the accent.

Issue Links

• duplicates: WAGON-538 Basic authentication fails if the password contains non-ASCII characters
• relates to: MNG-5917 Saved password with umlaut breaks deployment
• links to: Stack Oveflow Reference