You might need double backslash... But I doubt it.  You might at a command
line though...  Can you try with curl directly?

 Also I seem to remember some ftp daemons that supported + in lieu of @ for
usernames with "@" in them, perhaps this is one of them?

Eric

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 2:47 PM wa7skg <wa7...@wa7skg.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the FTPS tip. I never saw that as an option anywhere. I
> haven't dealt with FTP over TLS before, and there is no reference to it
> in the OpsGuide.
>
> As far as the @ is concerned, I was just getting a "failed to connect"
> error. I tried the username\@hostname escape, but RDCatch did not accept
> it in the username. I'll try the url-encoding tip and see what happens.
>
> I'll have to research the cURL library.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> Michael
>
>
> David Klann wrote on 2/9/21 9:26 AM:
> > FTPS (FTP over TLS, as opposed to SFTP, Secure Shell FTP) is supported
> > starting with Rivendell 3.5.0. SFTP has been supported for a long time,
> > FTPS support is new.
> >
> > The URL should look like: ftps://host.name/path-maybe-with-wildcards
> >
> > In what way does the "@" foul things up? I wonder if escaping it with
> > "\" (as in (username\@hostname) or "url-encoding" the at-sign (as in
> > username%40hostname). If you try the latter, you might need to use two
> > "%" symbols otherwise RDCatch may think you are trying to use a "percent
> > wildcard"; I kind of doubt this, but I do not know if RDCatch looks for
> > percent wildcards in the username field.
> >
> > In any event, Rivendell (RDCatch) uses the cURL library to perform the
> > actual download. That library may impose other constraints on the
> username.
> >
> > Hope this helps, good luck!
> >
> >     ~David Klann
> >
> >
> > On 2/9/21 10:27, wa7skg wrote:
> >>
> >> We have a program provider who has changed his ftp server and  I have
> >> run into two issues.
> >>
> >> First, he specifies he is using FTP over TLS. I'm not sure how to set
> >> this up in RDCatch.
> >>
> >> The other problem is he is using an email address for a username. I know
> >> this is common for users accessing websites, but the first I have seen
> >> it for FTP access. Naturally the @ in the username fouls things up. How
> >> can I properly utilize the @ in a username in RDCatch?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> 73,
> >> Michael WA7SKG
> >>
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