I have a WordPress 2.7 blog that I had been using with TextMate. Around the time I upgraded WordPress to 2.7.1 and TextMate to 1.5.8 (1498), TextMate lost the ability to interact with my blog. it gives "Error: bad login/pass combination(403)."
I've isolated the issue to when my password contains an ampersand (all the other characters are letters and numbers). For example, when I set the password to abcabc it works, but abc&abc does not.
On 9 Mar 2009, at 22:54, Zev Eisenberg wrote:
[...] I've isolated the issue to when my password contains an ampersand (all the other characters are letters and numbers). For example, when I set the password to abcabc it works, but abc&abc does not.
I tried changing my password to ‘me&my’. I deleted the key chain entry and then did “Fetch Posts”, entered this new password, and I got the list of posts.
This is using WordPress 2.7.1.
I tried the same thing with the same password (me&my) and it got the 403 error. When I set it to "memy" (no quotes) it worked fine. I've also noticed that, when posting markdown posts that include html, all the < and > characters are being stripped from the code. Perhaps some kind of encoding issue? Unfortunately I don't know much about that.
-Zev
On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 9 Mar 2009, at 22:54, Zev Eisenberg wrote:
[...] I've isolated the issue to when my password contains an ampersand (all the other characters are letters and numbers). For example, when I set the password to abcabc it works, but abc&abc does not.
I tried changing my password to ‘me&my’. I deleted the key chain entry and then did “Fetch Posts”, entered this new password, and I got the list of posts.
This is using WordPress 2.7.1.
On 11 Mar 2009, at 03:40, Zev Eisenberg wrote:
I tried the same thing with the same password (me&my) and it got the 403 error. When I set it to "memy" (no quotes) it worked fine. I've also noticed that, when posting markdown posts that include html, all the < and > characters are being stripped from the code. Perhaps some kind of encoding issue?
Sounds like you have something on your server that is “smart” about HTML characters.
Yes, but what would do that? Is there something in WordPress that would cause it? Here are the plugins I'm using.
AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget 1.5.3 Akismet 2.2.3 BackUpWordPress 0.4.5 Compatibility Notes 1.0 Email Users 3.1.6 Markdown 1.0.1m NoSpamUser 0.7.2 Snow and more 0.7.5 WordPress.com Stats 1.3.7 WP Ajax Edit Comments 2.2.7.0 WP FancyZoom 1.1 WP Super Cache 0.9.1 WPtouch iPhone Theme
-Zev
On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:39 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
Sounds like you have something on your server that is “smart” about HTML characters.
On 11 Mar 2009, at 15:32, Zev Eisenberg wrote:
Yes, but what would do that? Is there something in WordPress that would cause it? Here are the plugins I'm using [...]
You could start by disabling all of these, see if it fixes it.
I have not heard of this problem before, so I don”t know will cause it, but several things can cause it. Could also be something you installed for apache.
But also seems to be fairly simple to figure out, i.e. does regular POSTs to your server strip the characters? Are they stripped when posting via the web interface? etc.
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