On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:22:44PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Mitch Patenaude wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 11:55 US/Pacific, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > > > > > 6. strace -o LOG ncftpget -R ftp://USER:"PASSWORD"@ftp.server.com > > > > > >Ah-hah! Someone, somewhere, is using "%" as an escape character! > > > > That's part of the URL spec. %XX is used to encode a character that > > wouldn't be legal otherwise in that context, where XX is the hex for > > the ascii value of that character. > > Yeah, it totally didn't occur to me that URL encoding might take > place in the username/password field.
This Perl snippet will properly encode any string for a URL: $string =~ s/([^a-z0-9_.!~*'() -])/sprintf "%%%02X", ord($1)/gei; $string =~ tr/ /+/; David Hummel Genomics & Gene Discovery WRRC/ARS/USDA _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech