How to escape "at" character in the username of an ftp url

s.villanueva · 02-05-2010, 06:36 PM

Hi,

i have a username like jim@hisdomain.com .

Unfortunately, i have a software that needs a url like ftp://user@host .

I try ftp://jim\@hisdomain.com@thehost but it fails and is the same if i try ftp shell command ftp jim\@hisdomain.com@thehost .
The ftp command thinks the host is just after the first "@", and try to connect to hisdomain.com@thehost

Is there any escape character fort the at character?

I thank you in advance.

bigrigdriver · 02-06-2010, 07:47 AM

Try enclosing your username in double quotes:
ftp://"jim@hisdomain.com"@thehost

s.villanueva · 02-06-2010, 08:08 AM

Hi,

the doubles quotes doesn't work.

I have tried the backslash before at in username, the simple/double quotes enclosing the username.

For a real example, url ftp://"sv@symbiote-technology.com"@ftp.symbiote-technology.com fails.

But if i replace the username by anonymous or any other username without a at , it works.

s.villanueva · 02-06-2010, 08:46 AM

I have replaced the "@" character of the username with the "+" and that works.

AgentJJ22 · 02-22-2011, 10:57 AM

Hey s.villanueva!
Now that it works, how does it look when written out?
Thanks!

sucitivel · 11-23-2011, 03:48 PM

I hate when people's solutions are to simply remove the problem rather than deal with it.

All you have to do to escape special characters in your ftp password is find the hexidecimal value of the value to be escaped, and prefix it with a %

hence the password b@ner would now be b%40ner