[hobbit] http authentication

[sladewig]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> 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/
> 

Thank you very much!