Complex password not usable?

[Tantamount]

Hi, I recently updated the passwords on some of my cameras using a password manager that makes nice and complex strings, however when I attempt to use it in zm (rtmp://username:password@ip.address), I'm being told I need to url encode because the path is invalid.

However urlencoding the passwords result in "authorization failed" log entries.

I can work around this by using passwords without special characters, but was curious about this situation? I'm using CyberChef's URLENCODE function with special characters checked (https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/)

[iconnor]

You have to uri-encode it, otherwise known as % escaping. weird characters are not valid in a url