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Daniel_H
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Dec 04, 2019

REST iControl account password issue if special characters used

I followed the guidelines indicated by Jason in:   https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/demystifying-icontrol-rest-part-6-token-based-authentication   and have REST basic authentication and t...
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jaikumar_f5
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Dec 04, 2019

I dont think thats necessary. The curly braces as string objects need not be escaped. Refer - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-7

And through rest I tried to reset my password - "password}" and it worked too.

curl -sk -u testaccount -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PATCH  https://hostname/mgmt/tm/auth/user/testaccount -d '{ "password": "password}" }'

Can you share the error you are seeing.