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#633 uri::split fails when username contains backslash

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2005-06-24
2005-06-24
Pat Thoyts
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For Windows NT domains a users ID is typically composed
of their NT domain joined with the login name. So we
typically end up setting our http_proxy environment
variable to something like:
http_proxy='http://DOMAIN\loginid@webproxy:80/'

Unfortunately uri::split makes a meal of this and puts
everything after the backslash into the path element.

Needed for the autoproxy package.

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