Title: URI became invalid
Last modified: August 13, 2017

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# URI became invalid

 *  [nsahli1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsahli1/)
 * (@nsahli1)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uri-became-invalid/)
 * Dear,
    I have been using AuthLdap for almost 1 year and half and all was working
   fine. This weekend, it stopped working. Error: ldap://cn=auth.ldap,ou=Service_Accounts,
   ou=ITS,ou=Admin,ou=Security,ou=Staff,ou=GUtech_Sec_Dist_Groups,dc=gutech,dc=edu,
   dc=om:123qqq!@#@172.16.2.11/dc=gutech,dc=edu,dc=om seems not to be a valid URI
   I upgraded to latest version of AuthLDAP but same error. I did not change anything
   in the server or the website or the AD. It really came suddenly. Any clue please?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Furi-became-invalid%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [heiglandreas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heiglandreas/)
 * (@heiglandreas)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uri-became-invalid/#post-9406228)
 * Hey there.
 * Sorry to hear that the plugin suddenly stopped working. Or was that after an 
   update? One of the last updates introduced URL-encoding the password to allow
   better usage of characters that are reserved for URLs. That includes f.e. ‘@’
   and ‘#’ as they are special characters within an URL.
 * If you have such characters in the password or the Bind-DN you’ll now need to
   URL-encode them. You can use an online-encoder like [http://www.url-encode-decode.com](http://www.url-encode-decode.com)
   f.e.
 * After replacing the offending characters with the url-eroded ones everything 
   should work as before.
 * If not please get in touch with me ASAP so I can help you solve the issue! (feel
   free to ping me via authldap AT heigl DOT org)

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 * Last reply from: [heiglandreas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heiglandreas/)
 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uri-became-invalid/#post-9406228)
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