About Escaping Passwords in HTTP Basic Authentication URLs
When using HTTP Basic Authentication URLs, don't forget to escape the passwords, because they might include characters such as these /@:#?&=+, which could break the URL parsing or introduce exploitations for hackers:
from urllib.parse import quote_plus
encoded_password = quote_plus(PASSWORD)
ELASTICSEARCH_DSL = {
"default": {
"hosts": f"https://{USER}:{encoded_password}@{DOMAIN}",
}
}
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