[hobbit] http authentication

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:18:38AM -0500, sladewig wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a question. In bb-hosts to setup Basic Authentication you use:
> 
> http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@www.sample.com/
> 
> I have a login to use that requires the username to be an email address.
> So I have:
> 
> http://first.last@somewhere.com:secretpass@www.sample.com/
> 
> How can I escape this?

"@" is ASCII 64=0x40 (hex). So:

http://first.last%40somewhere.com:secretpass@www.sample.com/


Regards,
Henrik