Fail to login when password has special chars

[MatElGran]

First, thank you for this, it's going to be extremely valuable to me (reading on an e-reader is so much more comfortable than on a tablet or a phone)

Now, my problem is my passwords are generated, and, as such, contain special chars.

Right now, two of them are giving me problems: : and $

As a workaround, I escaped $ with \, but I had to modify credentials parsing to change the configured separator into a character which does not appear in my password.

May I suggest adding a --sep option, defaulting to :, so that user can choose whatever char suits best ?

As for $, I think it's more of a shell related problem, and I can't see for now a solution to this (other than escaping it, that is). Do you have any idea how we could overcome this ?

I am not fluent in python, but I can probably submit a PR making this separator option change, what do you think ?

[leptoid]

I was going to make a new post, but my error is possibly the same as above. I use an email address for login and a password that ends with a special character (one of these: !@#$%^&*()). When I attempt to use the script, I get the following:

[21/May/2018 06:57:57] ** Welcome to SafariBooks! **
[21/May/2018 06:57:57] Logging into Safari Books Online...
[21/May/2018 06:58:00] Retrieving book info...
[21/May/2018 06:58:01] API: Out-of-Session (Authentication credentials were not provided.).

[21/May/2018 06:58:01] Last request done:
	URL: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/api/v1/book/9780134807553/
	DATA: None
	OTHERS: {}

	401
	Server: nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu)
	Content-Type: application/json
	strict-transport-security: max-age=3600; includeSubDomains
	Content-Language: en-US
	WWW-Authenticate: Bearer realm="api"
	Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
	X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
	x-content-type-options: nosniff
	x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
	Set-Cookie: api_key=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT; Max-Age=0; Path=/, logged_in=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT; Max-Age=0; Path=/, sessionid=n1h1n2qucgwp9sxom4cn3863w9lt8xxk; Domain=.www.safaribooksonline.com; expires=Mon, 04-Jun-2018 11:58:04 GMT; httponly; Max-Age=1209600; Path=/; secure
	Content-Length: 58
	Accept-Ranges: bytes
	Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 11:58:02 GMT
	Via: 1.1 varnish
	Connection: keep-alive
	X-Client-IP: 107.181.176.104
	X-Served-By: cache-atl6236-ATL
	X-Cache: MISS
	X-Cache-Hits: 0
	X-Timer: S1526903882.203840,VS0,VE311
	Vary: Accept, Accept-Language, Authorization, Cookie

{"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."}

[lorenzodifuccia]

Ok, I'll work on it.

[lorenzodifuccia]

Is it correct?

[MatElGran]

Sorry, I should have give an example: if “[email protected]:pa$$word” is correctly parsed, then it seems good to me

[lorenzodifuccia]

Ok, updated.
Let me know if the problem is solved. I'll leave this open until then.

[lorenzodifuccia]

No, you know. You have to escape the "$" char: "pa\$\$word"...

[MatElGran]

That's what I thought, perhaps on note on the README could help future users ? Anyway, thanks for having a look at it

[lorenzodifuccia]

Done with a6bbf31
Thank you!

[t0m3kf]

Hi,

My password includes several special characters, tried escaping all of them but still getting the error

[#] API: Out-of-Session (Authentication credentials were not provided.).

special characters I use: @%^$

Also some of them comes one after the other so double escaping needed %$

Due to some other reasons I cannot change my password easily..

Any advice?

[narsimuluakula]

Hi
password has only @ and it is a corporate account. I am unable to login.
Any advise ?

  ____     ___         _     
  / __/__ _/ _/__ _____(_)    
 _\ \/ _ `/ _/ _ `/ __/ /     
/___/\_,_/_/ \_,_/_/ /_/      
  / _ )___  ___  / /__ ___    
 / _  / _ \/ _ \/  '_/(_-<    
/____/\___/\___/_/\_\/___/    

[-] Logging into Safari Books Online...                                                                                  
[#] HTTPSConnectionPool(host='learning.oreilly.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /login/unified/?next=/home/ (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x10e9c3190>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 60] Operation timed out'))
[#] Login: unable to reach Safari Books Online. Try again...                                                             
[!] Aborting...

[dmcgill50]

Hi
password has only @ and it is a corporate account. I am unable to login.
Any advise ?

  ____     ___         _     
  / __/__ _/ _/__ _____(_)    
 _\ \/ _ `/ _/ _ `/ __/ /     
/___/\_,_/_/ \_,_/_/ /_/      
  / _ )___  ___  / /__ ___    
 / _  / _ \/ _ \/  '_/(_-<    
/____/\___/\___/_/\_\/___/    

[-] Logging into Safari Books Online...                                                                                  
[#] HTTPSConnectionPool(host='learning.oreilly.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /login/unified/?next=/home/ (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x10e9c3190>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 60] Operation timed out'))
[#] Login: unable to reach Safari Books Online. Try again...                                                             
[!] Aborting...

I am getting the same behavior. I have removed special characters from my password.

[fengdi721]

Hi
password has only @ and it is a corporate account. I am unable to login.
Any advise ?

  ____     ___         _     
  / __/__ _/ _/__ _____(_)    
 _\ \/ _ `/ _/ _ `/ __/ /     
/___/\_,_/_/ \_,_/_/ /_/      
  / _ )___  ___  / /__ ___    
 / _  / _ \/ _ \/  '_/(_-<    
/____/\___/\___/_/\_\/___/    

[-] Logging into Safari Books Online...                                                                                  
[#] HTTPSConnectionPool(host='learning.oreilly.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /login/unified/?next=/home/ (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x10e9c3190>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 60] Operation timed out'))
[#] Login: unable to reach Safari Books Online. Try again...                                                             
[!] Aborting...

I am getting the same behavior. I have removed special characters from my password.

maybe you can try the --login option, which you should type the login/pwd manually.