Release character for resource variable

[MagicCB]

Hi Group,

to use special characters in an FTP password, I have to encode them:

"@" : "%40"
"/" : "%2F"

If I have two "special" characters for instance @123/ it will become: %40123%2F

A "GET FTP" with the encoded was not succesful - password incorrect. After we checked the log files on the server, we saw, that the get ftp used the password: 2F. We imagine, that it is looking for a resource variable %40123%, which it shouldn't, because it is not existing.

Are you aware of a release character? We tried %%, but this is also not working.

Thanks in advance for any hint.

Christian

 

[MagicCB]

Problem solved!

I added %Percent% to the resource file. In the Mapping I use %Percent%40 and during the get ftp Mercator replaces it with the correct value!

Thanks anyway

Christian

 

[janhes]

That's a good solution. I suppose the answer is not to have 2 special characters in a password.

 

[MagicCB]

Hi Janhes,

thanks for your comment, but I don't think, that an Admin will agree to the solution because of a Mercator "feature".

It was not working, as I used %TraceDir% in the same command to write the trace file to a certain directory.

I'm very surprised, that Mercator uses the same character to encode special characters as they are using the resource registry variables in a different way. Why haven't they used %40% to encode an @?

But now it is working anyway and I learned something more.

Christian