Posted by Michael B. Trausch on 04/23/06 06:06

simonp@nospam.com wrote in <e2eq70$2ht$1@reader1.panix.com> on Sat April 22
2006 22:53:

> I am trying to use the basic http://user:password@example.com
> form for authentication inside a script.
>
> My only problem is my username contains the @ character (its an
> email address). As result, the url seems to be parsing
> incorrectly.
>
> Has anyone found a way around this problem?
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>

Well, the way it usually works is:

http://user:pass@server/

You may be able to try this:

http://user%40sample.com:pass@server

And see if it works. 0x40 is the hex character code for '@', and URL
encoding works by using % and then the hex char reference (i.e., %20 for a
space, %40 for '@', and so forth).

If that doesn't work, then I don't know what else you could do to make it
work, at least, when authenticating using basic auth like that.

- Mike

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