Create UserCredentials API returns error when password has '<' or '>' characters

We have tried in the JSON format instead of XML still we are facing the same issue. Following is the response we have received.

{
  "errorDescription": "Value may not contain angle brackets.",
  "errorCode": 400}

We are going to work on this for a future consideration. In the iterim, can you try to submit this API request in a JSON format instead of XML? We believe that it should work in a JSON format while we consider addressing this for XML.

Hello Greg,

In this case passwords are partner remote profile password. In other words partner SFTP remote host passwords

Steven,

To clarify, the passwords that are being considered are passwords for access to SFG, correct?

Hi Greg,

Workaround you suggested would not work because we are trying to pass partner remote profile so cannot request customer to change his remote profile password.

Fyi - we are not able pass any XML characters in the password field in API.

So the request of this enhancement is accept all characters in the password field. Following is the API input.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<create username="EFAccess" password="76Pc729<" partner="d2551db5-b240-4d65-b18e-16469e7229a0"/>

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Steven,

If I understand your request correctly, the limitation that you are seeing is that the special characters "<" and ">" can not be used. That does not preclude a whole list of other possible special characters that could be used, correct?

I will validate with the team, but my initial thought is that the < and > may be problematic when trying to pass these values in the XML delivered via API.

The workaround would be to add a regular expression to the password field to limit the special characters that can be used and provide a tool tip so that the users would be aware of what characters are allowed in a password.