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Bug in camera password handling

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:56 am
by The Eye
So I gave my cameras the user "admin" and the password "Argus5+++".

I can say, because I can't use that password anyway.

When entering this password in the ZM monitor setup, the camera could not be connected. So editing the monitor and opening the form ("Source tab") revealed:

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rtsp://admin:Argu5   @<IP>/yaddayadda
Either a magic trick or URL encoding problems. Even when I manually entered the three '+++' instead of the spaces: no good.
So I have a different password now (and using rtmp:// instead of the smearing rtsp://), but I suspect someone might want to have a look at URL en/decoding in that part of ZM.

Re: Bug in camera password handling

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:35 pm
by Andyrh
+ is a url command. %43 should work in the url.

Less a bug than a feature would be to have ZM translate special characters to the ASCII codes. I suspect that feature would be interesting to make work in all cases.