On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Mitch Patenaude wrote: > On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 11:55 US/Pacific, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > >>6. strace -o LOG ncftpget -R ftp://USER:"PASSWORD"@ftp.server.com > > > >Ah-hah! Someone, somewhere, is using "%" as an escape character! > > That's part of the URL spec. %XX is used to encode a character that > wouldn't be legal otherwise in that context, where XX is the hex for > the ascii value of that character. Sorry.. I don't remember that ascii > value for "%" offhand, but there are a lot of utilities for > encoding/decoding.
Yeah, it totally didn't occur to me that URL encoding might take place in the username/password field. But, I guess it's useful if you have a password like: I0wnYou[Ctrl-C][Ctrl-C]1234 ;) PS - For looking up hex and octal values for ASCII chars, the "ascii" man page is great. It's "%25" BTW :) -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids? Get Tux Paint! http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
