Escaping @ isn't working?

[jjashinskyMC]

We have a project that's been using jcifs-ng for a while, currently on 2.1.5.
We have some unit tests that started failing and we've narrowed it down to being a password with "@" in it. I added code to escape it to "%40", but it still fails all the same.
I think I'm at the end of my rope trying to figure this out.

[mbechler]

How are you specifying the password?

 try ( SmbFile f = new SmbFile("smb://foo:b%40r@127.0.0.1/") ) {
    Assert.assertEquals("foo:b%40r", f.getLocator().getURL().getUserInfo());
    NtlmPasswordAuthenticator na = f.getContext().getCredentials().unwrap(NtlmPasswordAuthenticator.class);
    Assert.assertEquals("b@r", na.getPassword());
}

try ( SmbFile f = new SmbFile(new URL("smb://foo:b%40r@127.0.0.1/")) ) {
    Assert.assertEquals("foo:b%40r", f.getLocator().getURL().getUserInfo());
    NtlmPasswordAuthenticator na = f.getContext().getCredentials().unwrap(NtlmPasswordAuthenticator.class);
    Assert.assertEquals("b@r", na.getPassword());
}

appears to work as expected for me.

I would generally recommend switching to Context-based credential configuration e.g. something like

CIFSContext authed = SingletonContext.getInstance().withCredentials(new NtlmPasswordAuthenticator("DOMAIN", "user", "p@ssword"));
SmbFile f = new SmbFile("smb://x.y.z/share/....", authed)

no escaping should be required in that case.