Re: clone from url with email address as username?(escaping @ symbol)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Sep 29, 2009, 17:48 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0909291946520.23903@tvnag.unkk.fr>
In-Reply-To: <vpq63b1u1p6.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Unfortunately, it seems the complete URL is passed to curl, and curl
> is the one doing it wrong. Indeed:
>
> $ curl -v https://user@email.com@server.com/path/
> * getaddrinfo(3) failed for email.com@server.com:443

This is not exactly curl "doing it wrong". This is a user passing in something that isn't a URL to the command that asks for a URL to work on. The user part cannot legally have a '@' letter in a URL, you must encode it.

> In short, you have to use %40 to escape the @, and curl does it this way 
> because the RFC doesn't allow @ in usernames.

Exactly. So curl is not "wrong", it just can't work around this user-error.

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