Invalid URL specified when using servername with dash and password containing !

[pesse]

I ran into a very strange phenomenon:

sql test/[email protected]:1521/service1 Fails as expected with a I/O error (network could not establish connection)

But adding an exclamation mark to the password sql test/[email protected]:1521/service1 fails with Invalid Oracle URL specified / Unknown host specified.

Even more strange: sql test/[email protected]:1521/service1 fails with network adapter could not be established exception again.

So the combination of servername with dash and password with exclamation mark leads to invalid URL?

[bamcgill]

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