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jmacias
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[Device.Password] variable not working in custom tool

Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:54 am

As the subject states, I have created a new tool (Dude Version 3.4) that is attempting to call the [Device.Password] variable. However, it does not appear to be passing the password data from the device's properties.

The tool's command is basically as follows:

firefox [DeviceType.Url]/login.cgi?CanopyUsername=[Device.UserName]&CanopyPassword=[Device.Password]&login=Login&webguisubmit=submit

This will result in the following:

http://a.b.c.d/login.cgi?CanopyUsername ... mit=submit

As you can see above, no password has been passed through. I furthermore noticed that if I try to use [Device.Password] variable in the appearance of a device (a trick we used to use if we could not remember the saved password), it no longer displays correctly. That may have been removed as a security concern, but I would still expect to be able to use the variable in a custom tool.

The above command works fine when I manually type in a password, so I know its nothing related to the syntax of the command.

Anybody run into this or have any ideas?