Hi Robie,
after more investigation it was a bug in curl itself, so it affects all
applications that use curl and its parameter CURLOPT_USERPWD. I don't
know if other scripting languages use curl and that feature, but also
shell scripts using curl are affected, so potentially many users.
It has be
Public bug reported:
Hi there,
I'm not sure where to report this bug, if it's Ubuntu, Debian or curl.
I'm using newest stable Ubuntu 13.10 with PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.1. Basic
authentication via curl does not work anymore if the password contains a
semicolon:
$curlSettings[CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH] = CURL
