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Re: Specifying colon in authentication username

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 00:11:49 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Achint Mehta wrote:

> Is there any way that I can specify a username conatining a colon (or is it
> a violation of protocol) ?

#7 in http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html

The only way is to embed it into the URL and have the colon URL-encoded.

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Received on 2007-09-05