Re: clone from url with email address as username?(escaping @ symbol)

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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Matthieu Moy wrote:

Unfortunately, it seems the complete URL is passed to curl, and curl
is the one doing it wrong. Indeed:

$ curl -v https://user@xxxxxxxxx@server.com/path/
* getaddrinfo(3) failed for email.com@xxxxxxxxxx:443

This is not exactly curl "doing it wrong". This is a user passing in something that isn't a URL to the command that asks for a URL to work on. The user part cannot legally have a '@' letter in a URL, you must encode it.

In short, you have to use %40 to escape the @, and curl does it this way because the RFC doesn't allow @ in usernames.

Exactly. So curl is not "wrong", it just can't work around this user-error.

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