Re: [PATCH] percent-encoding for libfetch

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:24:30 -0700
On 4/9/12 1:50 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
> Libfetch supports a username and password in a FTP or HTTP URL, but lacks
> a method to specify '_at_' or ':' there, as they're used as URL component
> separators.  I discovered this issue because I have an FTP server that
> uses an email address as the username, and I can't use fetch(1) or
> libfetch against it.
>
> The attached patch adds decoding of percent-encoded usernames and
> passwords, in order to use a URL like
> ftp://foo%40example.com:password_at_host:port/file.bar .
>
> Please review.  I plan to commit in the next few days.

could you not parse the _at_ differently depending upon where it is?

others must have covered this problem..

> -Ed
>
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