proxy settings: '@' symbol in password
Bug #282898 reported by
Richard Hornsby
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #130289: Encode any ":", "@" or "/" within the user and password field in proxy settings..
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Bug Description
Synaptic's proxy authentication settings seem to be failing to parse/escape characters in the password and instead tries to use them as literals when putting together a string to use for the proxy. I have an '@' in my NT domain password (the auth required to access the proxy), but synaptic fails with an error message. Assume
u: yankeedoodle
p: pass@word
proxy host: dandy.macaroni.
After putting this information into the synaptic settings and trying launch the ubuntu package updater, synaptic displays the error message
Could not resolve '<email address hidden>'
I'm assuming that what it was trying to do was to do something like
http://
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