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It’s a known bug in VI Java API that it did not escape strings to be included within a XML tag. The potential risk, although very very rare, is that it can blow the de-serialization of a request on the server side. I did get one or two reports on failing on login, which turned out to be caused by special characters like < or > in passwords. As a quick fix, an escaping logic has been added to escape the special characters in passwords.  Read more... (386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

In yesterday’s blog, I talked about a little known secret of vSphere MOB – the invisible embedded XML in the HTML pages. To take advantage of the secret, I created a client side REST API which was shipped in VI Java API 2.0.  Read more... (937 words, 2 images, estimated 3:45 mins reading time)