Ampersand in password automatically replaced
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 5:43 pm
Hello,
I created an account in my AllProWebTools-hosted website for the purpose of making a test purchase. The password included an ampersand, but when I went to log in with the same credentials a few days later, it wouldn't accept the password. When I requested an email with the password, I discovered that the ampersand had been changed to "-amp-" (without the quotation marks). When I logged in with the password that was emailed to me, including the "-amp-", it worked.
I'm concerned that this automatic change could render some of my clients unable to log into their accounts, resulting in more abandoned carts. Can you fix the system so that it doesn't automatically replace characters in passwords (or anything else) without notifying the user?
Thank you very much.
Stephanie
I created an account in my AllProWebTools-hosted website for the purpose of making a test purchase. The password included an ampersand, but when I went to log in with the same credentials a few days later, it wouldn't accept the password. When I requested an email with the password, I discovered that the ampersand had been changed to "-amp-" (without the quotation marks). When I logged in with the password that was emailed to me, including the "-amp-", it worked.
I'm concerned that this automatic change could render some of my clients unable to log into their accounts, resulting in more abandoned carts. Can you fix the system so that it doesn't automatically replace characters in passwords (or anything else) without notifying the user?
Thank you very much.
Stephanie