FTP password doesn't work if it contains an apostrophe

[ChadCloman]

When automatically updating a plugin, I was asked for my FTP credentials. The FTP login always failed. I tried multiple times to get it to work, on multiple occasions.

My password happened to include an apostrophe. I changed the password so that it no longer had the apostrophe. Then when I re-tried the FTP update, it worked.

Note that it's not only the plugin update FTP that didn't work. There were other occasions where the WP admin pages asked for FTP credentials, and none of them worked with the apostrophe.

I haven't looked through the code, but I'm assuming there's a generic input function that escapes special characters like apostrophes, and that this is why it didn't work.

WordPress 2.8.4, Windows XP, Firefox 3.5.3

[dd32]

See: [11808] Strip slashes from POST data in request_filesystem_credentials(), props dd32, fixes #10567