# Password as global variable contains the at sign, @, failed in authentication

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/password-as-global-variable-contains-the-at-sign-failed-in-authentication/14533>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous\
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/password-as-global-variable-contains-the-at-sign-failed-in-authentication/14533 "2018-11-30T10:18:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Hung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@Eric\_Hung](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Eric_Hung)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/password-as-global-variable-contains-the-at-sign-failed-in-authentication/14533/1 "2018-11-30T10:18:00Z")

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I configured my username and password in Profiles and applied them to **WebUI.authenticate** for Chrome as follows:

**Profiles**  
Name |Value |Description  
userName |xxxxx |  
password |1j2dx@j35 |

**Test Cases**  
|  
| \_\_ Test Case 1

```auto
WebUI.openBrowser('')
WebUI.authenticate('url_to_authentication_page', GlobalVariable.userName, GlobalVariable.password, 5)

```

Here’s the error message I got:

```auto
11-30-2018 06:00:10 PM Test Cases/Methods/Login
Elapsed time: 8.009s
Test Cases/Methods/Login FAILED.
Reason:
com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: Unable to navigate to authenticated page (Root cause: com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: Unable to navigate to authenticated page)
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordMain.stepFailed(KeywordMain.groovy:36)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.stepFailed(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:65)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.runKeyword(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:27)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.AuthenticateKeyword.authenticate(AuthenticateKeyword.groovy:49)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.AuthenticateKeyword.execute(AuthenticateKeyword.groovy:42)
at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordExecutor.executeKeywordForPlatform(KeywordExecutor.groovy:53)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords.authenticate(WebUiBuiltInKeywords.groovy:2687)
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords$authenticate$0.call(Unknown Source)
at Login.run(Login:18)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.run(ScriptEngine.java:194)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.runScriptAsRawText(ScriptEngine.java:119)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.runScript(TestCaseExecutor.java:321)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.doExecute(TestCaseExecutor.java:312)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.processExecutionPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:291)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.accessMainPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:283)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.execute(TestCaseExecutor.java:222)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.runTestCase(TestCaseMain.java:106)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.runTestCase(TestCaseMain.java:97)
at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain$runTestCase$0.call(Unknown Source)
at TempTestCase1543572008848.run(TempTestCase1543572008848.groovy:22)

```

I have tried another account without the at sign and it worked like a charm. Moreover, hard coded username and password worked as well:

```auto
WebUI.authenticate('url_to_authentication_page', 'xxxxx', '1j2dx@j35', 5)

```

Anyone happens to know where the problem is?  
Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![kazurayam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/kazurayam/32/333_2.png) [@kazurayam](https://forum.katalon.com/u/kazurayam)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/password-as-global-variable-contains-the-at-sign-failed-in-authentication/14533/2 "2018-11-30T10:28:59Z")

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- [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6718471/escaping-username-characters-in-basic-auth-urls](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6718471/escaping-username-characters-in-basic-auth-urls)

According to [RFC3986](http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3986.html) section 3.2.1, @ in URL need to be percent encoded. @ -\> %40

Try the following:

**Profiles**  
Name |Value |Description  
userName |xxxxx |  
password |1j2dx%40j35 |