Re: @ character in http login

>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
Received on Mon May 1 03:02:16 2006