Special characters in password causing login failure

[sagar-shah-uipath]

Describe the bug
When there are special characters in password in connection string, It fails with login failed. We do use many special characters in password, not sure which exact character is causing failures

To Reproduce
Try using password like @-(^-d:ec1/$P;~L=,#''e:L;8Nd*{)o2Xcj=~R);U-[5c/7z in connection string

Expected behavior
Login should pass because password is correct

Further technical details

SQL Server version: SQL Server 2017
Operating system: RHEL

[elsgaard]

Yeah i have noticed the same problem. It seems to be caused by the function: splitConnectionStringURL which uses the url.Parse() from net/url to parse the dsn. url.Parse() expects the browser to correctly escape characters.

Workaround:
The workaround (that is working for me), is to url-encode the password like: 1234#!456 is encoded to: 123%23%21456
Now the DB connection is created with the correct password: 1234#!456