#1 Parsing userID:passwd in http_proxy

[Anonymous]

When using yum (an automatic updater) on Fedora Core 1,
I am trying to take advantage of an http_proxy
variable. The problem is that our proxy userIDs contain
an "@" character, and when the variable has the
following format:
http_proxy=http://userID@my_domain:passwd@my_proxy:8080/
I am getting the following error:
[Errno 7] HTTP Error (InvalidURL): nonnumeric port:
'passwd@my_proxy:8080'

Would it be possible to change the way 'userID:passwd'
string is parsed? Maybe by allowing a delimiter around
that string?
Thank you very much for your co-opeartion.

Best regards
Marcin
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Marcin J. Kraszewski, IS NDC Solution Centre
EDS Canada Inc. marcin.kraszewski@eds.com
99 Bank Street, S. 601 tel. 613-751-2044
Ottawa, ON K1P 6B9 fax 613-232-5182