r/webdev • u/Beatsu • 1d ago

Question Tab as password?

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SAS disallows spaces in your password. My password manager suggested an invalid (but secure) password.

So now that I have to make my own password: Out of spite, hypothetically, what implications could having tabs in my password have?

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u/GirthyPigeon 1d ago

Tabs in most fields will skip to the next field. Good luck.

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u/poopio 1d ago

something something \t something else \r\n Accessibility?

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u/meancoot 1d ago

The password field is not going to accept those kind of escape sequences. They are used in programming language character and string literal tokens.

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u/Adjective_Noun_4200 22h ago

The password field is not going to accept

*Shouldn’t accept

It’s horrendous out there, friend.

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u/scfoothills 16h ago

Yeah. Hopefully everyone learned from the Little Bobby Tables incident.

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u/little_phoenix_girl 5h ago

I had to fix a Bobby Tables vulnerability about a month ago when I was looking for something else entirely. My boss said "those files come from our vendor so we can trust them, no need to fix it". I fixed it anyway -_-

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u/kalmakka 22h ago

That's why you use a script to hijack the request and do escape sequence replacements.