From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se
<mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se?Subject=Re:%20Couldn't%20resolve%20host%20name
> >
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:09:25 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Alona Rossen wrote:

>> We receive "Couldn't resolve host name" error on some of our UNIX and

>> Windows boxes when trying to access specific URI.
> >
>> For example, one of our Windows boxes fails for
>>
"smtp://<my_login>@rogers.com:<my_pwd>@smtp.broadband.rogers.com:587",
>> while this URI is accessible from a different box. Any suggestions?

>There seems to be an extra @ letter in that URL within the user name
field, is
>that correct? It needs to be URL encoded as it has a magic meaning
within
>URLs: it separates the user+password field from the host name part.

What does URL encoding mean? Should '@' be surrounded by specific
symbols?

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