Re: @ character in http login

Michael B. Trausch <michael.trausch.no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
simonp@xxxxxxxxxx wrote in <e2eq70$2ht$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Sat April 22
2006 22:53:

I am trying to use the basic http://user:password@xxxxxxxxxxx
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?

Cheers
Simon


Well, the way it usually works is:

http://user:pass@server/

You may be able to try this:

http://user%40sample.com:pass@server



Thank you for the pointer, it pointed me to the right solution.

It looks like &#64; is the escape character that works for @,
rather than %40. On using the parse_url() function on the url,
the correct email username was returned for the user element in
the resulting array.

Cheers
Simon

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