Posted by Michael B. Trausch on 04/23/06 06:35

Gordon Burditt wrote in <124lsguc12j3o95@corp.supernews.com> on Sat April 22
2006 23:18:

>>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?
>
> You may be able to use something like
> http://username%40hotmail.com:password@example.com
>
> where @ is converted to %40 . The same approach may apply if the
> password contains odd characters like @, colon, space, %, etc.
>
> Gordon L. Burditt

FYI, you may want to read to ensure that the question hasn't been answered
the same way you're about to answer it. It is bad form; the question was
answered twelve minutes prior to you posting the same thing.

Regards,
Mike

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