Password not supporting some special characters.

[0450]

Most of my passwords with special characters always fails when trying to log in with SAM but its fine when i enter it manually. The passwords consists of !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~

[rex706]

@0450 It is most likely the - character that causes the problem. Since SAM uses the built in Steam login parameters to do the initial logging in, it probably interprets everything after that character as a launch parameter. Now that I have some more free time I am looking further into #35, which likely relates to this issue as well.

[rex706]

Reopened this issue as some special characters like the hyphen - will not be usable in passwords currently with the -login parameter enabled. I am unsure if they can be escaped.

[rex706]

Update: Looks like this works in the limited tests I have run so far. Appending quotes around the password still logs in successfully through the -login argument. I may need to handle a few special cases with certain characters like quotes and percents as mentioned in the link but that shouldn't be too bad.

[rex706]

Update 2: As far as I can tell, after surrounding the password with quotes " and escaping quotes in the password with a backslash \ instead of additional quotes as the linked article in my previous update suggested, all other special characters seem to work fine using !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~ as a test password on a random test account. I probably just need to test passwords with multiple quotes in a row and things of that sort.

I should hopefully be able to release a new version with this fixed some time this week!