In addition to passwords, can it be used in the name portion of the address? There were issues with the FTP and email components where the user name the host was expecting had an "@" in it, as in b...@host.com was actually expected as the name, with the whole address being b...@host.com@host.com. The URI class parser doesn't like that.
So, would RAW(b...@host.com)@host.com work? Don