Re: [Apt-proxy-users] http_proxy

[Dely N. <Nic...@th...>]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 09:41 +0200, Chris Halls wrote:
> 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(':')
> 

ok so I'm waiting for this.

Could you begin a password section about characters allow and not,
please?