Using AOM_0.5.5.240

Super Shanko · Post by **Super Shanko** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:33 am

Hey everyone, im knew here so i might be putting this in the wrong place.
i finally got this program again(thank goodness) but when i open it up i get an error message that says "Illegal input when logging in, please only use ASCII characters." along with nothing showing up in the anime browser, when i had it before i didn't get this kind of message so is there something wrong with it or something im not doing?

Website · Post by **Rar** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:04 am

Log of similar I had reported on IRC the other day:

[8/26/2005 7:37:50 PM] - Creating cache...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Cache created after 624 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading genre data...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Genre data loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading group data...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Group data loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading anime data...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Anime data loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading title data...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Title data loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading anime<->genre relations...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Anime<->genre relations loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading anime<->anime relations...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Anime<->anime relations loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading review data...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Review data loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading episode data...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Episode data loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading file data...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - File data loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading mylist data...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Mylist data loaded after 0 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading local file hashes...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Done loading local file hashes after 15 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Loading local files...
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Done loading local files after 94 milliseconds.
[8/26/2005 7:37:51 PM] - Trying to connect to AniDB...
[8/26/2005 7:37:52 PM] - Connected to AniDB.
[8/26/2005 7:37:59 PM] + Illegal input when logging in, please only use ASCII characters.

Rar

Post by **PetriW** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:09 am

Make sure your password only contains a-z and 0-9 please, anything else is unsupported by AniDB (not AoM).

At least the api was working correctly 10 seconds ago.

Post by **exp** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:28 pm

PetriW wrote:Make sure your password only contains a-z and 0-9 please, anything else is unsupported by AniDB (not AoM).

I never knew x_X
Do other passwords really don't work?
I just took a quick peek at the source, at least I am not preventing the password from containing special chars in any obvious way.
So this would not be an intenden behaviour.

BYe!
EXP

Post by **PetriW** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:43 pm

I'm sorry, I should say it's username which is limited to that but:

The thing is people have used special characters which can't be reliably encoded by a client (character set is unknown after all).
I changed the client so it could log in with special characters but ever since the API changed encoding the first time I see it as "not my problem (tm)".

Essentially, only low ascii characters are safe to use, since people don't know which characters those are I say they're a-z0-9.

I think you can actually use almost anything in the password field. But many passwords won't work in a different browser as the website uses iso-8859-1. And if it's dubious between browsers it's worse with aom.

(It was a larger problem in the past for some reason, maybe people use less weird characters nowadays! Hint: long passwords are safer than cryptic ones!!)

Short info why: Different browsers handle how to encode non iso-8859-1 characters differently.

Super Shanko · Post by **Super Shanko** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:43 pm

Alright, problem solved, it was just a mistake i made.