Re: [Apt-proxy-users] http_proxy

[Chris H. <ha...@de...>]

On Friday 15 Apr 2005 10:59, Dely Nicolas wrote:
> My
> password contains non alpha numeric characters '%' '#',
>
> What are the rules to set non alpha numeric characters in this config
> file?

Hi, thanks for your report.  

It looks like the password parsing routine is too simplistic.  Bug #309288 
points out that '@' is not accepted either.  We will fix this but we need to 
wait until the debian sarge freeze is over.  Please work around this by using 
other characters.  I think you'll find that there are other characters that 
work, eg !$^*, but I haven't tested it yet.  

In case you can read Python, here is the code that does the parsing:

        self.scheme, netloc, self.path, parameters, \
                     query, fragment = urlparse.urlparse(uri)

        if '@' in netloc:
            auth, netloc = netloc.split('@')
            self.username, self.password = auth.split(':')


Chris