Re: [SLUG] wget with proxy authentication

[Rodos <rodos@nospam.haywood.org>]

> >    http://hniksic:mypassword@nospam.proxy.company.com:8001/
> 
> Yes, thanks, but...
> My username contain the '@nospam.' character (I can't change it) and wget responds
> with invalid port specification or not recognized it at all. How to solve the
> problem?

Go with the source gizmox.

In url.c there is the following function that does all the parsing of the
URL you enter. It determines if you have a user and password set by
looking for the literal @nospam. character (in a function named skip_uname).

parseurl (const char *url, struct urlinfo *u, int strict)
{
   /* Allow a username and password to be specified (i.e. just skip
      them for now).  */
   if (recognizable)
     l += skip_uname (url + l);
   for (i = l; url[i] && url[i] != ':' && url[i] != '/'; i++);

So you cant have the @nospam. anywhere else or it brakes it. A little futher on
it does the actual parsing out of the user and password.

   /* Parse the username and password (if existing).  */
   parse_uname (url, &u->user, &u->passwd);
   /* Decode the strings, as per RFC 1738.  */
   decode_string (u->host);
   decode_string (u->path);
   if (u->user)
     decode_string (u->user);
   if (u->passwd)
     decode_string (u->passwd);

Now the good news is that after it has extracted out the user and password
it calles decode_string on them. This means that you can escape your
special characters and it will decode them for you,

You should therefore be able to use %40 instead of your @nospam. character.

Give

http://user%40domain:mypassword@nospam.proxy.company.com:8001/

Let us know if it works.

Rodos

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