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Why the
password.trim()? Silently removing parts of the password can lead to dangerous bugs and tells me the developer didn't peoperly consider how to sanitize input.I remember once my password for a particular organization had a space at the end. I could log in to all LDAP-connected applications, except for one that would insist my password was wrong. A
trim()or similar was likely the culprit.The reason for leaving in the
password.trim()would be one of the few things that I would ever document with a comment.