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Set the password&period;

== Synopsis


Declared in `&lt;https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/static_url.hpp#L367[boost&sol;url&sol;static&lowbar;url&period;hpp]&gt;`

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set&lowbar;password(core::string&lowbar;view s);
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== Description


This function sets the password in        the userinfo to the string&period;        Reserved characters in the string are        percent&hyphen;escaped in the result&period;

[NOTE]
The interpretation of the userinfo as        individual user and password components        is scheme&hyphen;dependent&period; Transmitting        passwords in URLs is deprecated&period;


=== Example

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assert( url("http://user@example.com").set_password( "pass" ).encoded_userinfo() == "user:pass" );
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=== Postconditions

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this->has_password() == true && this->password() == s
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=== Exception Safety

Strong guarantee&period;        Calls to allocate may throw&period;


=== BNF

[,cpp]
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userinfo      = [ [ user ] [ ':' password ] ]

user          = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims )
password      = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" )
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=== Specification

* link:https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.1[            3&period;2&period;1&period; User Information (rfc3986)]



== Parameters


|===
| Name | Description

| *s*
| The string to set&period; This string may        contain any characters, including nulls&period;


|===

== See Also


xref:boost/urls/url_base/remove_password.adoc[remove&lowbar;password],            xref:boost/urls/url_base/set_encoded_password.adoc[set&lowbar;encoded&lowbar;password],            xref:boost/urls/url_base/set_encoded_user.adoc[set&lowbar;encoded&lowbar;user],            xref:boost/urls/url_base/set_user.adoc[set&lowbar;user]&period;






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