proxy password has '@' in name.

asheehy · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

Hey.

I have a problem with my companies proxy server. The username for the proxy is in the format 'asheehy@companyint.com'. Is there a way to escape it so that websync and portage will work?

I can get wget to work by using the --proxy-user= switches.

Any help would be appreciated.

DZello · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:24 pm Post subject:

Did you try to escape it using \ ?

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asheehy · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

Hello;

Upon RTFM'ing, I found a solution that works OK.

I don't really want to do web browsing, just run portage mostly and download other software. So, I put the following entries into the wgetrc which seems to work although I don't like having my password sitting there in plain text, but there are ways to manage that risk.

Below is a sample