Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:50:29PM +0200, Max Waterman wrote:
I'm a long time lftp user, but I find the need to specify a password in
the URL, but my password contains an '@' symbol and this causes some
problems.
Just use %40 instead of @
I would have assumed that wouldn't work, but I've changed my password
now and can't change it back again; I tried setting a temporary account
password on my home machine to '@@@@@' and using lftp with an ssh url,
but that worked with just '@@@@@', so I guess this is something to do
with http...I had assumed that lftp parses the username/password, but I
guess not...so, I will remember to try %40 instead, if I ever have an
'@' in a password again.
Thanks,
Max.