Application notes

Support for special characters in passwords

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Industry-standard available here details the support for special characters in video stream URLs.

See chapter 2.2. The following table lists the special characters and the applicable value to be inserted into the password in the URL to be used in IRIS+™.

The encoding of the special characters was done using this encoder. 

#

Character

Replace with

1

:

%3A

2

/

%2F

3

?

%3F

4

#

%23

5

[

%5B

6

]

%5D

7

@

%40

8

!

%21

9

$

%24

10

&

%26

11

'

%27

12

(

%28

13

)

%29

14

*

%2A

15

+

%2B

16

,

%2C

17

;

%3B

18

=

%3D

Example:

  • Password with special characters: Gt@4?
  • Password to be entered in IRIS+™ camera settings (following encoding): Gt%404%3F