[squid-users] Password rewriting issues

Hi List,

I have just very recently bumped into a problem involving plain-text
password details
I have a helper in place which looks up the user and password in mysql.
When passing the username to the helper squid seems to treat special
characters as html friendly chars.

eg.

scott abc#123

would produce

scott abc%23123

This is obviously quite annoying as it restricts passwords to be plain
alphanumeric

I was wondering if

A) This was normal behaviour
B) Is a fix for this?
C) Am I doing something wrong?
D) Do I need to adjust my helper to re-ascii my password in order to
authenticate users?
E) Has anybody else come across this?

I hope this makes sense to some people on this list
Thanks in advance to any information

Scott

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