Created 20 Feb 2004
Modified 08 May 2007
Modified 08 May 2007
Article 187
URL that contains "@" in password
From the RFC 1738:
"...Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_.+!*'()," [not including the quotes - ed], and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL."
You have to hex encode the @ in the URL:
user: myuser
password: h@t
host: myhost
To url => hex encode unsafe characters =>
ftp://myuser:h%40t@myhost
References
RFC 1738
URL Encoding
"...Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_.+!*'()," [not including the quotes - ed], and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL."
You have to hex encode the @ in the URL:
user: myuser
password: h@t
host: myhost
To url => hex encode unsafe characters =>
ftp://myuser:h%40t@myhost
References
RFC 1738
URL Encoding
Keywords