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Lately I have tried to integrate my server with the vBulletin forum software.

Apparently* it's not been going too well.

Sometimes it reads the forum name and pass correctly* and other time it says it's invalid even though you are using your forum pass and name to connect to the server.

I am using a Java MySQL driver to connect to the database.

Also* I realized that if I don't add
Code:
characterEncoding=UTF-8
Than I would get this error when trying to connect:

Code:
java.sql.SQLException: Unknown initial character set index '192' received from s
erver. Initial client character set can be forced via the 'characterEncoding' pr
operty.
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.configureClientCharacter Set(Connection.java:2667)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.initializePropsFromServe r(Connection.java:3304)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.j ava:1825)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.(Connection.java:452)
at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonReg isteringDriver.java:411)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at Server.createConnection(Server.java:24)
at Server.main(Server.java:64)
Anyway* my question is:

Why do I get this reoccuring problem?

I don't see as to why it would say Invalid pass/name when I am connecting to the right database and doing everything correctly.

Is it some sort of encryption error?