Merge pull request sentinelsat#324 from Fernerkundung/coda_pwd

document CODA password limitations
fdbesanto2 · Nov 4, 2019 · a6d396b · a6d396b
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
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 * code formatting with `black` checked by Travis-CI
 * trigger retrieval of offline products from LTA, while downloading online products (#297 @gbaier)
 * allow input of multiple values per query parameter as logical OR (#321 @OlgaCh)
+* document CODA password limitations (#315 @nishadhka)
 
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diff --git a/docs/common_issues.rst b/docs/common_issues.rst
@@ -24,12 +24,17 @@ SciHub servers are known to have outages due to high demand, try again later.
 
 Standard GeoJSON specification contains only WGS84 format, check if your data complies with it.
 
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 .. rubric:: My search returns 0 results
 
 Maybe there are no images for the specified time period, by default
 ``sentinelsat`` will query the last 24 hours only.
 
+.. rubric:: A query to Eumetsat CODA fails with *HTTP 401 - Full authentication is required* even with the correct password.
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+CODA does not allow the following special characters in passwords: ``~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * _ - + = ` | \ ( ) { } [ ] : ; " ' < > , . ? /``. See `issue #315`__ .
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+__ https://github.com/sentinelsat/sentinelsat/issues/315
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 .. rubric:: I get the warning 'The query string is too long and will likely cause a bad DHuS response'.  
 
 The query sent to the DHuS server is too complex and will likely fail. You can counter this by decreasing the query