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Weird error message when using an incorrect password to upload a patch over XML-RPC

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

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Reproduce the report with grunt upload_patch:48819 and an incorrect password, then inspect the XML-RPC upload path that produces Unknown XML-RPC tag 'TITLE'. The issue does not name a file, test, or agreed correction; done would require a clear, credential-focused error message if this report is still considered actionable.

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Description

As reported by @TimothyBJacobs in https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4879:

I tried using grunt upload_patch:48819 to upload a patch. I ended up using an incorrect password and received a strange error message.

{{{
Warning: Something went wrong when attempting to upload the patch. Please confirm your credentials and the ticket number. Error: Unknown XML-RPC tag 'TITLE'
}}}

Reading it again, it says confirm your credentials in the message, but I didn't notice it even after reading it three times. I was hung up on the error portion of the message. So this might just be user error and can be closed :)

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