Character '!' is Invalid in Launch URL

Products

• CA Privileged Access Manager - Cloakware Password Authority (PA)
• CA Privileged Access Manager (PAM)

Issue/Introduction

When creating a new TCP/UDP Service in CA Privileged Access Management (CA PAM) as in screendump below, you try to enter a value in Launch URL field in Web Portal that contains a special character "!", for example:

https://<Local IP>:<First Port>/application/#!/logon

The ! is an invalid character in the Launch URL.

Environment

CA Privileged Access Management 4.1-4.1.1

Cause

This was a coding issuein older releases of CA PAM where the special character "!" was not recognized by the product.

Resolution

This problem is fixed in 4.1.2 and newer releases.

On older releases the error could be avoided by using URL encoded characters, %21 for “!”, like https://<Local IP>:<First Port>/application/#%21/logon