https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17560858/command-prompt-having-trouble-escaping-quotes-and-braces

You can use curl -g to turn off globbing:

On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, 02:11 James H. H. Lampert, <jam...@touchtonecorp.com>
wrote:

> Dear Mr. Schultz, et al.:
>
> The manager password on this Tomcat server has an embedded curly brace,
> and an embedded question mark.
>
> If I do this (the names have been changed to protect the innocent, and
> the -k!)
>
> > curl -k "https://foo:b?a{r@localhost
> :8443/manager/jmxproxy?invoke=Catalina%3Atype%3DProtocolHandler%2Cport%3D8443%2Caddress%3D%22127.0.0.1%22&op=reloadSslHostConfigs"
>
> I get curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column xx
>
> If I change the curly brace to "%7B," I get:
>
> > curl -k "https://foo:b?a%7Br@localhost
> :8443/manager/jmxproxy?invoke=Catalina%3Atype%3DProtocolHandler%2Cport%3D8443%2Caddress%3D%22127.0.0.1%22&op=reloadSslHostConfigs"
>
> I get curl: (3) Port number ended with 'n'
>
> And if I put the user-ID and password in with a -u clause on curl,
> rather than in the URL itself, I get "Unauthorized."
>
> What is wrong here? Are there characters it simply can't tolerate in
> passwords, even if URL-escaped?
>
> Or do I need to give the manager user an additional role? Currently, I
> have:
> <user username="foo" password="b?a{r" roles="manager-gui"/>
>
> --
> JHHL
>
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