sounds like a shell issue. assuming you are on a nix, try 'pass' (so shell passed the weird chars literally. If you are on Windows, it's another story.
On 11/10/07, Uma Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > I've been struggling to download data from a protected site. The man pages > intruct me to use the --http-user=USER and --http-passwd=PASS options when > issuinig the wget command to the URL. I get error messages when wget > encounters special chars in the password. Is there a way to get around this? > I really need helpo downloading the data. > Thanks, > Uma Shankar, Research Associate > Institute for the Environment > Bank of America Plaza CB# 6116 > 137 E. Franklin St Room 644 > Chapel Hill NC 27599-6116 > Phone: (919) 966-2102 > Fax (919) 843-3113 > Mobile: (919) 441-9202 > > Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we > have lost in information? -T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) > > -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch.
