On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 10:57:53PM +0530, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: > I had a password with % in it. When I tried yum update I got HTTP Error 407 > ie authentication required. > On searching the net for yum proxy problem I came across this > http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-March/000781.html > The guy could not connect to proxy server because of a special character > which yum misread/misencrypted. > I changed my password to include only alphanumeric and yum worked!!!! > Wget, apt (in ubuntu5.10) worked with old password. > Does yum not support special characters?? It does. Special characters in URLs (and all proxy data gets folded into a url) should be encoded appropriately. If your password is "my%pass", then your proxy url would be: http://user:my%25pass@xxxxxxxx/ See http://rfc.net/rfc2396.html for details, but the upshot is that special characters become "%XX" where "XX" is the hex code for the character. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G
