From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:47:35 GMT
Subject: Re: clone from url with email address as username?(escaping @ symbol)
Message-ID: <vpqzl8dmqag.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0909292228120.23903@tvnag.unkk.fr>

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> writes:

>> Many tools do in this case, Firefox is one of them.
>
> So what if you had that @ in your password and not in your user
> name?

Then the last @ would still be the separator between the
login/password and the hostname, and looking at the '@' starting from
the right hand side would still work.

The problem is if you have a ":" in your login or password, _then_ it
is ambiguous (but by far less common), but the @ is here to split
something that can have a @ in it (login:pass) and something which
can't (hostname), so there isn't any ambiguity.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/